From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: nsujir@broadcom.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/6] Add support to download EEE firmware for the 57766
Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2013 15:32:02 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130307.153202.775624726449165426.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1362625354-15095-1-git-send-email-nsujir@broadcom.com>
From: "Nithin Nayak Sujir" <nsujir@broadcom.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2013 19:02:28 -0800
> For the 57766 devices with no NVRAM, there is not enough space for the complete
> boot code with EEE support. On these devices, the tg3 driver has to download
> a service patch firmware to the scratchpad for the boot code to execute. This
> patchset adds support to do the above.
>
> A major portion of this patchset is refactoring the existing firmware download
> section to allow a cleaner merge of the 57766 download. The 57766 firmware
> differs from previous firmware in that it's not written to a contiguous area in
> memory. It consists of multiple fragments to be written to different locations.
> The patchset makes an attempt to make the new firmware format to be an
> extension of the existing format.
Series applied, thanks.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-07 20:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-07 3:02 [PATCH net-next 0/6] Add support to download EEE firmware for the 57766 Nithin Nayak Sujir
2013-03-07 3:02 ` [PATCH net-next 1/6] tg3: Add new FW_TSO flag Nithin Nayak Sujir
2013-03-07 3:02 ` [PATCH net-next 2/6] tg3: Refactor cpu pause/resume code Nithin Nayak Sujir
2013-03-07 3:02 ` [PATCH net-next 3/6] tg3: Refactor the 2nd type of cpu pause Nithin Nayak Sujir
2013-03-07 3:02 ` [PATCH net-next 4/6] tg3: Cleanup firmware parsing code Nithin Nayak Sujir
2013-03-07 3:02 ` [PATCH net-next 5/6] tg3: Enhance firmware download code to support fragmented firmware Nithin Nayak Sujir
2013-03-07 3:02 ` [PATCH net-next 6/6] tg3: Download 57766 EEE service patch firmware Nithin Nayak Sujir
2013-03-07 20:32 ` David Miller [this message]
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