From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Magnos A. Hammes" Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2.c Date: Thu, 01 May 2014 13:36:36 -0300 Message-ID: <53627814.7090106@taghos.com.br> References: <5361C29C.5060808@taghos.com.br> <1398922768.3056.4.camel@LTIRV-MCHAN1.corp.ad.broadcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Michael Chan Return-path: Received: from gproxy2-pub.mail.unifiedlayer.com ([69.89.18.3]:53598 "HELO gproxy2-pub.mail.unifiedlayer.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751159AbaEAQgx (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 May 2014 12:36:53 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1398922768.3056.4.camel@LTIRV-MCHAN1.corp.ad.broadcom.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 01-05-2014 02:39, Michael Chan wrote: > On Thu, 2014-05-01 at 00:42 -0300, Magnos A. Hammes wrote: >> Hello, >> >> >> I have a Dell server with the following Broadcom gigabit network >> adapter that uses the bnx2 driver: >> >> 01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II >> BCM5716 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 20) >> >> I was using kernel 3.2.57 and 3.13.3, but in both of them I faced some >> trouble to make the ethernet adapter work, whatever version of this >> two kernels that I try to boot I get the same error: >> >> Can't load firmware file "bnx2/bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1b.fw" >> Direct firmware load failed with error -2 >> > We no longer put the firmware in the kernel tree, so you need to > download the firmware from the linux-firmware git tree: > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git > > > Ok, I cloned that git tree and used the firmwares available there, but it didn't work with this firmware: bnx2/bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1b.fw sha1sum 8f11b39a60a4e1dd3774a10218c913f1cb761353 It only works when I change the source code of "drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2.c" and compile the kernel again, making him load this firmware "bnx2/bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1a.fw" instead of "bnx2/bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1b.fw". Magnos A. Hammes