Re: [PATCH 3/3] wd719x: Add firmware documentation

[Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>]

On 11/24/2014 11:24 PM, Ondrej Zary wrote:
> Add documentation and script to obtain required firmware.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ondrej Zary <linux@rainbow-software.org>
> ---
>  Documentation/scsi/wd719x.txt |   21 +++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 21 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/scsi/wd719x.txt
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/wd719x.txt b/Documentation/scsi/wd719x.txt
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..0816b02
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/scsi/wd719x.txt
> @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
> +Driver for Western Digital WD7193, WD7197 and WD7296 SCSI cards
> +---------------------------------------------------------------
> +
> +The card requires firmware that can be cut out of the Windows NT driver that
> +can be downloaded from WD at:
> +http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?groupid=801&sid=27&lang=en
> +
> +There is no license anywhere in the file or on the page - so the firmware
> +probably cannot be added to linux-firmware.
> +
> +This script downloads and extracts the firmware, creating wd719x-risc.bin and
> +d719x-wcs.bin files. Put them in /lib/firmware/.
> +
> +#!/bin/sh
> +wget http://support.wdc.com/download/archive/pciscsi.exe
> +lha xi pciscsi.exe pci-scsi.exe
> +lha xi pci-scsi.exe nt/wd7296a.sys
> +rm pci-scsi.exe
> +dd if=wd7296a.sys of=wd719x-risc.bin bs=1 skip=5760 count=14336
> +dd if=wd7296a.sys of=wd719x-wcs.bin bs=1 skip=20096 count=514
> +rm wd7296a.sys
> 
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>

Cheers,

Hannes
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