Re: kernel 2.6.26.3 qla2xxx oopsing on Fire 280R

David Miller
2008-09-09T22:57:16Z

From: Josip Rodin <joy@entuzijast.net>
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 00:00:38 +0200

> On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 02:30:12PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> > I assume you use this device for your too filesystem, in which case
> > the firmware has to be in the initial ramdisk.
> >
> > The qla2xxx firmware isn't in the firmware tree, it's in the filesystem
> > somewhere, and that gets put into the initial ramdisk you build for
> > a particular kernel image. For this reason CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL
> > won't make any difference.
> >
> > This takes a bit of skill to get working properly, I hate it too. It's
> > really unfriendly to users and even kernel developers. These drivers
> > should "just work" when you build them, rather than require contortions
> > such as this.
>
> Exactly. And this *has* worked, up to now. I would run update-initramfs and
> it would assemble the initial ramdisk and all was well.

I wonder if the new firmware code looks for firmware under a different
directory in the initramfs or filesystem, such as /lib/firmware/${KERNEL_VERSION}/
and this is what is burning you.

Wish I could be more help, this stuff is just as perplexing to me :-/