netdev - Re: [PATCH] linux-firmware: Add a new bnx2x FW 7.0.20.0

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Message-ID: <201106141353.34962.vladz@broadcom.com>
Date:	Tue, 14 Jun 2011 13:53:34 +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 13:16:43 David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 13:10 +0300, Vlad Zolotarov wrote:
> > 
> > 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?
> 
> Right. Imagine that you have checked out the linux-firmware.git
> repository directly into /lib/firmware, and nothing else has been
> written there.

Got it. I checked it now and surprizingly it worked... ;)

thanks, man. 

I'm resending u *binaries* ...

> 
> 

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