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Message-ID: <201106141310.16440.vladz@broadcom.com> Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 13:10:16 +0300 From: "Vlad Zolotarov" <vladz@...adcom.com> To: "David Woodhouse" <dwmw2@...radead.org> cc: "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, "Eilon Greenstein" <eilong@...adcom.com>, "Dmitry Kravkov" <dmitry@...adcom.com>, "Yaniv Rosner" <yaniv.rosner@...adcom.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH] linux-firmware: Add a new bnx2x FW 7.0.20.0 On Tuesday 14 June 2011 13:04:18 David Woodhouse wrote: > On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 12:57 +0300, Vlad Zolotarov wrote: > > > > What do u mean? I do have put the ihex files under the net-next kernel > > tree at the regular location plus I updated the the kernel's > > firmware/WHENCE and firmware/Makefile files and of course I ran a > > functionality tests for the driver after all patches and with the new > > firmware. > > Ah, there lies your problem. > > Never put new firmware into the kernel source tree. It doesn't belong > there. > > In the linux-firmware tree we store the *binary* files, which go > directly into /lib/firmware as-is. Aha... Correct me if I got u wrong: to test it I need to manually copy the new .fw files into the /lib/firmware directory, install the clean net-next kernel with the driver that supports this new FW and it should work. Is it what u meant? thanks, vlad > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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