From: Josip Rodin <joy@entuzijast.net>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kernel 2.6.26.3 qla2xxx oopsing on Fire 280R
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 00:00:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080909220038.GA13300@orion.carnet.hr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080909.143012.193704777.davem@davemloft.net>
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.
% zcat /boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-rc5-usiii | cpio -ivt | grep ql
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Sep 9 16:56 lib/modules/2.6.27-rc5-usiii/kernel/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 320472 Sep 9 16:55 lib/modules/2.6.27-rc5-usiii/kernel/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla2xxx.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 76802 Sep 9 16:56 lib/firmware/ql2100_fw.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 84566 Sep 9 16:56 lib/firmware/ql2200_fw.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 123170 Sep 9 16:56 lib/firmware/ql2300_fw.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 132978 Sep 9 16:56 lib/firmware/ql2322_fw.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 200244 Sep 9 16:56 lib/firmware/ql2400_fw.bin
11608 blocks
It's hardly any different from the working initrd:
% zcat /boot/initrd.img-2.6.25.5 | cpio -ivt | grep ql
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Aug 4 09:21 lib/modules/2.6.25.5/kernel/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 307988 Jun 10 14:14 lib/modules/2.6.25.5/kernel/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla2xxx.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 76802 Aug 4 09:22 lib/firmware/ql2100_fw.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 84566 Aug 4 09:22 lib/firmware/ql2200_fw.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 123170 Aug 4 09:22 lib/firmware/ql2300_fw.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 132978 Aug 4 09:22 lib/firmware/ql2322_fw.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 200244 Aug 4 09:22 lib/firmware/ql2400_fw.bin
11572 blocks
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-09 22:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-04 9:39 kernel 2.6.26.3 qla2xxx oopsing on Fire 280R Josip Rodin
2008-09-08 21:13 ` Andrew Vasquez
2008-09-08 21:23 ` David Miller
2008-09-08 21:49 ` Andrew Vasquez
2008-09-08 23:08 ` David Miller
2008-09-08 23:42 ` Josip Rodin
2008-09-09 1:35 ` Andrew Vasquez
2008-09-09 1:49 ` Josip Rodin
2008-09-09 1:53 ` Josip Rodin
2008-09-09 2:01 ` Andrew Vasquez
2008-09-09 14:39 ` Josip Rodin
2008-09-09 15:00 ` Josip Rodin
2008-09-09 21:30 ` David Miller
2008-09-09 22:00 ` Josip Rodin [this message]
2008-09-09 22:57 ` David Miller
2008-09-09 22:59 ` David Miller
2008-09-10 0:05 ` Josip Rodin
2008-09-10 0:30 ` David Miller
2008-09-11 11:37 ` Josip Rodin
2008-09-11 21:57 ` Josip Rodin
2008-09-11 22:01 ` David Miller
2008-09-11 22:15 ` Andrew Vasquez
2008-09-12 5:19 ` [PATCH scsi-rc-fixes] qla2xxx: Defer enablement of RISC interrupts until ISP initialization completes Andrew Vasquez
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