From: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
To: "Valdis Klētnieks" <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: next-20210302 - build issue with linux-firmware and rtl_nic/ firmware.
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2021 07:51:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <02b966f5-a056-b799-dd6d-c5dc762d42f3@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199898.1614751762@turing-police>
On 03.03.2021 07:09, Valdis Klētnieks wrote:
> So my kernel build died..
>
> UPD drivers/base/firmware_loader/builtin/rtl_nic/rtl8106e-1.fw.gen.S
> make[4]: *** No rule to make target '/lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8106e-1.fw', needed by 'drivers/base/firmware_loader/builtin/rtl_nic/rtl8106e-1.fw.gen.o'. Stop.
> make[3]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:514: drivers/base/firmware_loader/builtin] Error 2
>
> I tracked it down to a linux-firmware update that shipped everything with .xz compression:
>
> % rpm2cpio linux-firmware-20201218-116.fc34.noarch.rpm | cpio -itv | grep 8106e-1
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1856 Dec 19 04:43 ./usr/lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8106e-1.fw
> 631034 blocks
> % rpm2cpio linux-firmware-20210208-117.fc34.noarch.rpm | cpio -itv| grep 8106e-1
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 848 Feb 8 16:38 ./usr/lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8106e-1.fw.xz
> 340217 blocks
>
> and my .config shows it's self-inflicted (no, I don't remember why it's in there):
>
> # Firmware loader
> CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE="rtl_nic/rtl8106e-1.fw"
> CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR="/lib/firmware"
>
This is wrong, simply remove it.
> But then I take a closer look at drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c
> #define FIRMWARE_8168D_1 "rtl_nic/rtl8168d-1.fw"
> #define FIRMWARE_8168D_2 "rtl_nic/rtl8168d-2.fw"
> #define FIRMWARE_8168E_1 "rtl_nic/rtl8168e-1.fw"
>
> So now I'm mystified how this compressing all the firmware files is supposed to work...
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-04 0:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-03 6:09 next-20210302 - build issue with linux-firmware and rtl_nic/ firmware Valdis Klētnieks
2021-03-03 6:51 ` Heiner Kallweit [this message]
2021-03-03 7:39 ` Valdis Klētnieks
2021-03-03 10:26 ` Heiner Kallweit
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