Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:03:22 +0100 | | From | Ben Hutchings <> | | Subject | Re: In tree firmware not kept up to date |
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On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 04:11:44PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > Hello, > > What is the current policy wrt keeping the in-tree firmware updated > alongside the drivers?
Muddled.
> I use CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL but a couple of times[0] recently this > has failed me because the in-tree bnx2 driver requires > bnx2/bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1b.fw but the tree contains > firmware/bnx2/bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1a.fw.ihex and not 6.2.1b. > > Is it a bug that bnx2 was updated without adding the new firmware or is > a bug that the obsolete firmware is still sitting in the tree?
It's a bug that any firmware is still in-tree, but CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL hasn't yet been made to work with a separate linux-firmware directory.
Ben.
> Ian. > > [0] It's possible the same thing and I've just tripped over it more than > once now.
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