> >Guys, > > Currently, the bnx2x.c driver looks for the following firmware files >(when >PMD is enabled for it): > >--- >$ ~/sources/dpdk/dpdk-2.2.0/drivers/net/bnx2x$ grep lib\/firmware * >bnx2x.c:#define FW_NAME_57711 "/lib/firmware/bnx2x/bnx2x-e1h-7.2.51.0.fw" >bnx2x.c:#define FW_NAME_57810 "/lib/firmware/bnx2x/bnx2x-e2-7.2.51.0.fw" >--- > > Files bnx2x-e1h-7.2.51.0.fw and bnx2x-e2-7.2.51.0.fw. > > > However, on Ubuntu 16.04, the package linux-firmware comes with: > >--- >$ dpkg -L linux-firmware | grep -i bnx2x >/lib/firmware/bnx2x/bnx2x-e1h-7.12.30.0.fw >/lib/firmware/bnx2x/bnx2x-e1-7.12.30.0.fw >/lib/firmware/bnx2x/bnx2x-e1-7.13.1.0.fw >/lib/firmware/bnx2x/bnx2x-e2-7.12.30.0.fw >/lib/firmware/bnx2x/bnx2x-e1h-7.13.1.0.fw >/lib/firmware/bnx2x/bnx2x-e2-7.13.1.0.fw >--- > > > Is it okay to just point bnx2x.c to a new version and rebuild it ? > > For example: bnx2x-e1h-7.13.1.0.fw and bnx2x-e2-7.13.1.0.fw ? > > > I would prefer to not manually download old firmware from Github: > > https://github.com/cernekee/linux-firmware/tree/master/bnx2x > > >Thanks, >Thiago >
Hi Thiago Any reason why you don?t prefer to get the required FW file from other source? You can certainly download it from: http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/tre e/bnx2x Any other FW is an untested combination. Thanks, Harish
