Re: [RFC] Proposal to address hfi1 UI and EPROM devices

Jason Gunthorpe
2016-05-05T19:20:24Z

On Thu, May 05, 2016 at 02:57:01PM -0400, Doug Ledford wrote:

> and the eeprom is written with the new data. If you need to do special
> things, like Mellanox, in terms of recovering burned data like GIDs
> or

The 'eeprom' and device firmware are very different things. hfi1 has
both, and uses request_firmware too.

I've never heard of a driver using ethtool eeprom to deal with nv
firmware like mlx has. AFAIK there is no kernel convention for that
stuff. It is more common for storage than network drivers.

Jason