Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: In tree firmware not kept up to date | From | Ian Campbell <> | Date | Wed, 18 Apr 2012 10:13:45 +0100 |
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On Tue, 2012-04-17 at 20:03 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > 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.
Thanks, so the future-proof solution is to clone and install firmware-linux.gitwhich is currently a rather manual process but will improve at some point.
Cheers, Ian.
> > Ben. > > > Ian. > > > > [0] It's possible the same thing and I've just tripped over it more than > > once now. >
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