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From: Daniel Bareiro <daniel-listas@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: Very high memory usage with KVM
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 12:22:41 -0300
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On Monday, 10 August 2009 08:40:48 +0200,
Bernhard Held wrote:

> Hi Daniel!

Hi Bernhard!
=20
> >Aug  4 17:38:39 ss03 kernel: [    4.750023] bnx2 0000:03:00.0: firmware:=
 requesting bnx2/bnx2-mips-06-4.6.16.fw
> >Aug  4 17:38:39 ss03 kernel: [    4.751070] bnx2: Can't load firmware fi=
le "bnx2/bnx2-mips-06-4.6.16.fw"
> >Aug  4 17:38:39 ss03 kernel: [    4.751141] bnx2 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A=
 disabled
> >Aug  4 17:38:39 ss03 kernel: [    4.751167] bnx2: probe of 0000:03:00.0 =
failed with error -2
> >Aug  4 17:38:39 ss03 kernel: [    4.751244] bnx2 0000:05:00.0: PCI INT A=
 -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17

> Is bnx2.ko loaded by initramfs? Then the initramfs must contain the
> requested firmware file.
>=20
> Another possibility is to set FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL in the kernel config.

I've set in the kernel config:


CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL=3Dy


Although I don't see the asked file in initramfs. The file with full
path is /lib/firmware/bnx2/bnx2-mips-06-4.6.16.fw:

# zcat /boot/initrd.img-2.6.30.4-dgb | cpio -t | grep bnx2
lib/modules/2.6.30.4-dgb/kernel/drivers/net/bnx2.ko
300859 blocks

Whereupon this variable is set to 'y' would not have to be sufficient?

<just_guessing>
1) Perhaps firmware must be in some other directory.
2) Perhaps there is no access to the FS in /lib at the moment that loads
drivers.
</just_guessing>


Thanks for your reply.

Regards,
Daniel
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