Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Kernel Firmware Support | From | David Woodhouse <> | Date | Fri, 10 May 2013 07:17:08 +0100 |
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On Tue, 2013-05-07 at 10:20 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > But yesterday, I got a message from a different user with screen > > captures that showed failure of loading the firmware below. > > Actually, one screen shot with the 7.0.23.0 and another with the > > 7.0.29.0. Wasn't sure, so I had added all three of th 7.0.x group to > > a test build of my kernels. Is only the latest needed? > > > > ./bnx2x/bnx2x-e1h-7.0.23.0.fw > > ./bnx2x/bnx2x-e1h-7.0.29.0.fw > > ./bnx2x/bnx2x-e1h-7.0.20.0.fw > > If you are supporting multiple versions of the kernel, that need > different versions of the firmware package, then you need to include > all of these to handle that properly.
The linux-firmware tree should include them all, hopefully. We don't intentionally *remove* old stuff, since that would break old kernels.
Eventually we'll want a way for people to filter out firmware which is only used by old kernels, when they install or package linux-firmware. But for now you just get everything.
-- David Woodhouse Open Source Technology Centre David.Woodhouse@intel.com Intel Corporation
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