Mainline kernel has problem with broadcom firmware

Mainline kernel has problem with broadcom firmware

[Dongsoo Nathaniel Kim]

Hello folks,
After updating my kernel to 3.2 vanilla, I experienced a weird problem
with my broadcom ethernet card.
It seems to have some problem with firmware which is not placed in
kernel firmware directory.
When will it the correct firmware be available in the mainline?
bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1b.fw <= I mean this one.
I hacked bnx2 driver to use bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1a.fw and ethernet is
working, but we really need bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1b.fw, don't we?
Cheers,

Nate

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Dongsoo Nathaniel Kim
Linux kernel, media device S/W engineer / Ph.D Student
Dept. of Computer Science, KAIST
Real-time & Embedded Systems Lab.

Re: Mainline kernel has problem with broadcom firmware

[Ben Hutchings]

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On Tue, 2012-01-10 at 10:12 +0900, Dongsoo Nathaniel Kim wrote:
> Hello folks,
> After updating my kernel to 3.2 vanilla, I experienced a weird problem
> with my broadcom ethernet card.
> It seems to have some problem with firmware which is not placed in
> kernel firmware directory.
> When will it the correct firmware be available in the mainline?
> bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1b.fw <= I mean this one.
> I hacked bnx2 driver to use bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1a.fw and ethernet is
> working, but we really need bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1b.fw, don't we?
> Cheers,

You can get the new firmware file from linux-firmware.git.  It's a bit
stupid that we have the old file in the Linux tree though.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
                                                               - John Lennon

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