On 24 March 2016 at 19:03, Harish Patil <harish.patil at qlogic.com> wrote:
> > > >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 > Hi Harish, Sure, I can download the firmware files, no problem... I just prefer to stick with the packages/files from the distribution that I'm using (Ubuntu 16.04) but, on this case, I'll follow your recommendation. I don't know why Ubuntu removed the previous firmware files out from "linux-firmware" package... Thanks for posting the git.kernel.org link! Best, Thiago
