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From: Tony Vroon <tony@linx.net>
To: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	"Anthony G. Basile" <basile@virtual.dyc.edu>
Subject: BNX2 MIPS06 firmware in tree is 6.2.1, driver wants 6.2.3
Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2012 09:50:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FF2B263.4080000@linx.net> (raw)

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Good morning,

As of mainline commit c2c20ef43d00b1439631e603f8dcee9a803cd8b3 in
December 2011, the BNX2 driver requests bnx2/bnx2-mips-06-6.2.3.fw;
however the firmware/bnx2 directory in the kernel sources only
contains bnx2/bnx2-mips-06-6.2.1.fw so the call fails.

The network interfaces will not come up at all, making it necessary to
steal & rename 6.2.1 firmware to get the interfaces up, and then
install a linux-firmware tarball. Before this commit, the bnx2 driver
as compiled was self-sufficient.

Would it be possible to get back to this situation by updating the
relevant firmware/bnx2 files in the kernel sources please? I noticed
this problem in an upgrade from 3.2.11 to 3.4.2, but I verified it is
still an issue in mainline today.

Regards,
- -- 
Tony Vroon
Server systems manager
London Internet Exchange Ltd, Trinity Court, Trinity Street,
Peterborough, PE1 1DA
Registered in England number 3137929
E-Mail: tony@linx.net

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             reply	other threads:[~2012-07-03  8:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-03  8:50 Tony Vroon [this message]
2012-07-03  9:05 ` BNX2 MIPS06 firmware in tree is 6.2.1, driver wants 6.2.3 Eric Dumazet
2012-07-03  9:07   ` Tony Vroon
2012-07-03  9:30     ` Eric Dumazet

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