Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 13 Feb 2012 06:37:54 -0500 | From | Neil Horman <> | Subject | Re: pull request: linux-firmware: update cxgb* firmwares |
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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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