From: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
To: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Cc: 'Eric Dumazet' <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
"'dwmw2@infradead.org'" <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
"'netdev@vger.kernel.org'" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH linux-firmware] linux-firmware: bnx2: Update mips firmware to fix iSCSI problems
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 18:13:50 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111221181350.GG20752@decadent.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0E685F8B314BFB42AE2422915B7BDCC30752F5@IRVEXCHMB07.corp.ad.broadcom.com>
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 04:49:10PM +0000, Michael Chan wrote:
> Eric Dumazet wrote:
>
> > Le dimanche 18 décembre 2011 à 20:13 -0800, Michael Chan a écrit :
> > > New firmware fixes iSCSI problems with some LeftHand targets that
> > don't
> > > set TTT=0xffffffff for Data-In according to spec. Firmware generates
> > > exception warnings for this condition and becomes very slow. This is
> > > fixed by suppressing these warnings when using default error mask.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
> > > ---
> > > WHENCE | 2 ++
> > > bnx2/bnx2-mips-06-6.2.3.fw | Bin 0 -> 92824 bytes
> > > bnx2/bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1b.fw | Bin 0 -> 103904 bytes
> > > 3 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> > > create mode 100644 bnx2/bnx2-mips-06-6.2.3.fw
> > > create mode 100644 bnx2/bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1b.fw
> >
> > IMHO, this should be applied _before_ the drivers/net patch.
> >
>
> Ben,
>
> If David Woodhouse is not available, can you help us apply this firmware
> patch?
Yes, but please don't expect instant response.
Ben.
--
Ben Hutchings
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- Albert Camus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-21 18:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-19 4:13 [PATCH linux-firmware] linux-firmware: bnx2: Update mips firmware to fix iSCSI problems Michael Chan
2011-12-21 8:55 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-12-21 16:49 ` Michael Chan
2011-12-21 18:13 ` Ben Hutchings [this message]
2011-12-26 18:31 ` Ben Hutchings
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