netdev - Re: on bnx2x firmware...

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Message-ID: <1320208614.3079.5.camel@deadeye>
Date:	Wed, 02 Nov 2011 04:36:54 +0000
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	Maciej Żenczykowski <zenczykowski@...il.com>
Cc:	Linux NetDev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: on bnx2x firmware...

On Tue, 2011-11-01 at 18:01 -0700, Maciej Żenczykowski wrote:
> ((v3.1))$ cat drivers/net/bnx2x/bnx2x_hsi.h | egrep BCM_5710_FW_
> 
> #define BCM_5710_FW_MAJOR_VERSION                       7
> #define BCM_5710_FW_MINOR_VERSION                       0
> #define BCM_5710_FW_REVISION_VERSION            23
> #define BCM_5710_FW_ENGINEERING_VERSION         0
> 
> So the desired firmware is version 7.0.23.0
> 
> ((v3.1))$ find | egrep bnx2x | egrep fw
> ./firmware/bnx2x/bnx2x-e1-6.2.9.0.fw.ihex
> ./firmware/bnx2x/bnx2x-e2-6.2.9.0.fw.ihex
> ./firmware/bnx2x/bnx2x-e1h-6.2.9.0.fw.ihex
> ./drivers/net/bnx2x/bnx2x_fw_defs.h
> ./drivers/net/bnx2x/bnx2x_fw_file_hdr.h
> 
> So it doesn't look like the in-tree fw matches the bnx2x driver in
> released v3.1.
> I can find this firmware in the firmware repository.
[...]

That's where it belongs.  But there is some confusion/disagreement on
this point.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Sturgeon's Law: Ninety percent of everything is crap.

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