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SubjectRe: pull request: linux-firmware: update cxgb* firmwares
On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 09:52:38PM -0800, Divy Le Ray wrote:
> On 2/11/2012 6:07 AM, Neil Horman wrote:
> >On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 07:07:37PM -0800, Divy Le Ray wrote:
> >>Hi David,
> >>
> >>Can you please pull from the following URL?
> >> git://git.chelsio.net/pub/git/linux-firmware.git for-david
> >>
> >>It contains the following commits:
> >>03cadf2 linux-firmware: update cxgb3 driver firmware to revision 7.12.0
> >>235dfaf linux-firmware: add t4fw-1.4.16.0.bin firmware for cxgb4 driver.
> >>e2ea873 linux-firmware: remove current t4fw.bin
> >>
> >>The following changes since commit 15888a2eab052ac3d3f49334e4f6f05f347a516e:
> >>
> >> bnx2x: Adding FW 7.0.29.0 (2011-10-24 16:31:44 +0200)
> >>
> >>are available in the git repository at:
> >> git://git.chelsio.net/pub/git/linux-firmware.git for-david
> >>
> >>Divy Le Ray (3):
> >> linux-firmware: remove current t4fw.bin
> >> linux-firmware: add t4fw-1.4.16.0.bin firmware for cxgb4 driver.
> >> linux-firmware: update cxgb3 driver firmware to revision 7.12.0
> >>
> >> WHENCE | 3 ++-
> >> cxgb3/t3fw-7.12.0.bin | Bin 0 -> 31812 bytes
> >> cxgb4/t4fw-1.4.16.0.bin | Bin 0 -> 298496 bytes
> >> cxgb4/t4fw.bin | Bin 241664 -> 0 bytes
> >> 4 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> >> create mode 100755 cxgb3/t3fw-7.12.0.bin
> >> create mode 100644 cxgb4/t4fw-1.4.16.0.bin
> >> delete mode 100644 cxgb4/t4fw.bin
> >>
> >Deleting the old firmware is a bad idea. You've haven't modified the driver in
> >net or net-next to use the new firmware, and until you do, kernels won't be able
> >to find the firmware the driver is requesting. You should make firmware changes
> >addative. Add new versions of firmware, but keep the old ones (at least for a
> >while). Thank you for moving cxgb4 to a versioned firmware file though. I
> >presume there is a pending update to change the FW_FNAME definition to pending?
>
> Hi Neil,
>
> Thank you for the review. I have updated the patch series with the
> following changes:
> - Rename the existing t4fw.bin file as t4fw-1.3.10.0.bin
> - Add t4fw.bin as a symlink to the latest t4fw revision.
>
Thank you, that helps.

> The driver looks up "t4fw.bin", the symlink allows updates of the FW
> without actually modifying the driver source.
> Also, if the firmware revision under /lib/firmware/cxgb4/t4fw.bin is
> more recent than the adapter's embedded FW,
> the driver will update it. The FW revisions are forward compatible.
>
Thats fine, I presume then we can expect a commit to the cxgb3 driver shortly,
updatnig the FW_VERSION_MINOR macro?

Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>




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