Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: BNX2 MIPS06 firmware in tree is 6.2.1, driver wants 6.2.3 | From | Eric Dumazet <> | Date | Tue, 03 Jul 2012 11:05:34 +0200 |
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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
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