Otavio Salvador wrote: > Hello dann, > > On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 4:04 PM, dann frazier<da...@debian.org> wrote: >> The bnx2x driver was disabled in lenny due to its use of non-free >> firmware. I have put together a patch that would reenable this driver >> in lenny's 2.6.26 kernel, making use of the firmware split-out patch >> that has gone upstream in Linux 2.6.31-rc releases (and is currently >> in use in the linux-2.6 2.6.30 packages in sid). > > Really good news :-) > >> I'd like to see if we can enable the use of this driver in 5.0.3. >> As far as I can tell, the necessary steps would be: >> >> - Update the kernel (obviously) - planned for a p-u upload this week >> - Backport the necessary changes for firmware-nonfree from sid to add >> the firmware-bnx2x package
AFAICS both above are done? >> - Update kernel-wedge/stable to include bnx2x if available (are there >> space issues here?) > > The space usage is neglitable and I think it can be done with a very > small risk of regressions. > > Be sure to use the kernel-wedge of lenny for building it since we've > changed kernel-wedge a lot during the 2.6.30 migration and it is not > suitable for the lenny usage. What's the status here? >> - Update d-i in 5.0.3 to incorporate this driver > > Yes, you got the picture right. > > I offer help if required. This can probably be done already when kernel-wedge is updated? Please don't delay when unnecessary, TIA. Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
