From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755009Ab2GCJFm (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jul 2012 05:05:42 -0400 Received: from mail-ee0-f46.google.com ([74.125.83.46]:57605 "EHLO mail-ee0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752206Ab2GCJFk (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jul 2012 05:05:40 -0400 Subject: Re: BNX2 MIPS06 firmware in tree is 6.2.1, driver wants 6.2.3 From: Eric Dumazet To: Tony Vroon Cc: Michael Chan , LKML , linux-netdev@vger.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" , "Anthony G. Basile" In-Reply-To: <4FF2B263.4080000@linx.net> References: <4FF2B263.4080000@linx.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2012 11:05:34 +0200 Message-ID: <1341306334.2583.81.camel@edumazet-glaptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2012-07-03 at 09:50 +0100, Tony Vroon wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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. You're supposed to upgrade firmware blobs on your own. http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/dwmw2/linux-firmware.git;a=summary