On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 11:55:42PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 17:20 -0600, dann frazier wrote: > > I'd like to propose we add support for unified firmware images for > > netxen nics for squeeze. > > > > HP ships servers with netxen controllers, and we've seen problems with > > old firmware/new driver combinations - basically the network runs > > ridiculously slow, causing network installs to take many > > hours. Flashing to the latest firmware resolves the issues - but > > flashing a system (or 50) before install can be a pain (once you've > > finally identified firmware as the problem). There's an online flash > > tool you can use post-install but, as of this writing, it is not > > very Debian friendly (distributed in an RPM, needs out of tree driver, > > script has incompatible paths/bashisms). > > > > netxen_nic can load updated firmware via request_firmware, and > > recently a firmware blob got accepted into the linux-firmware tree w/ > > a non-free-compatible license, specifically for this reason. However, > > this blob is in a newer "unified" format that the 2.6.32 driver didn't > > yet support. > > > > This patch cherry picks the change to add support for the unified rom > > image, as well as several fixes that came after. > > I prefer to deal with individual patches as it's easier to compare them > with the upstream version that way. I'm not sure how much that matters > here.
Thanks for the review, and sorry for my slow response. Yeah, I also like to keep track of individual patches, but in this case I did so by just keeping the changeset summaries at the top of the unified patch. I have all of them stored as such in a local git tree if we decide to go that way. > > In addition, I'd like to also package the firmware blob. The blob > > alone is 1.7 MB, whereas the entire contents of firmware-linux-nonfree > > is 940K. That implies to me that it should be a new binary package, > > but I don't feel strongly about that. > > It should be. k. I'll commit the changes I have queued for this new package then. > > Any objections to these changes? > > AFAIK only HP shipped many of these NICs so if you (wearing your HP hat) > are happy with the changes then that's good enough for me. da...@hp.com> I am, thanks. -- dann frazier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100908153602.ga31...@lackof.org
