A little late, but should not matter to driver. (I work at Chelsio) The firmware load is just an info message, in case firmware load fails, driver will fallback to using firmware already flashed in card. Drivers for 1.12.25.0 are backwards compatible with 1.9.23.0
That said, "Direct firmware load failed with error -2" indicates the firmware file was not found in userspace. -2 is ENOENT (file not found) Hard to say without full update-initramfs output, but rm -f ./lib/firmware/cxgb4/t5fw.bin rm -f ./lib/firmware/cxgb4/t4fw.bin looks suspicious to me. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux-firmware in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1400413 Title: Chelsio cxgb4 driver cannot load firmware Status in linux-firmware package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Stock ubuntu 14.04 install, updated to the latest packages. Still seeing: root@ceph-eng-osd-walter:~# dmesg | grep cxgb4 [ 8.075442] cxgb4 0000:0c:00.4: enabling device (0040 -> 0042) [ 8.080852] cxgb4 0000:0c:00.4: Direct firmware load failed with error -2 [ 8.080853] cxgb4 0000:0c:00.4: Falling back to user helper [ 8.111546] cxgb4 0000:0c:00.4: unable to load firmware image cxgb4/t4fw.bin, error -2 [ 8.128533] cxgb4 0000:0c:00.4: Coming up as MASTER: Initializing adapter [ 8.800553] cxgb4 0000:0c:00.4: Direct firmware load failed with error -2 [ 8.800554] cxgb4 0000:0c:00.4: Falling back to user helper [ 8.808545] cxgb4 0000:0c:00.4: mbox 4: 70000000c1f0203 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 [ 9.504543] cxgb4 0000:0c:00.4: Successfully configured using Firmware Configuration File "Firmware Default", version 0x0, computed checksum 0x0 however: root@ceph-eng-osd-walter:~# ls -las /lib/firmware/cxgb4 total 972 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 6 14:58 . 20 drwxr-xr-x 61 root root 20480 Dec 6 14:58 .. 476 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 486912 Sep 18 15:50 t4fw-1.9.23.0.bin 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Sep 18 15:50 t4fw.bin -> t4fw-1.9.23.0.bin 472 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 481280 Sep 18 15:50 t5fw-1.9.23.0.bin 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Sep 18 15:50 t5fw.bin -> t5fw-1.9.23.0.bin root@ceph-eng-osd-walter:~# and the module is looking for it there also: root@ceph-eng-osd-walter:~# modinfo cxgb4 | grep firmware firmware: cxgb4/t5fw.bin firmware: cxgb4/t4fw.bin root@ceph-eng-osd-walter:~# here's update-initramfs: root@ceph-eng-osd-walter:~# update-initramfs -uv | grep cxgb Adding module /lib/modules/3.13.0-40-generic/kernel/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb/cxgb.ko Adding module /lib/modules/3.13.0-40-generic/kernel/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb3/cxgb3.ko Adding firmware /lib/firmware/cxgb3/ael2020_twx_edc.bin Adding firmware /lib/firmware/cxgb3/ael2005_twx_edc.bin Adding firmware /lib/firmware/cxgb3/ael2005_opt_edc.bin Adding firmware /lib/firmware/cxgb3/t3c_psram-1.1.0.bin Adding firmware /lib/firmware/cxgb3/t3b_psram-1.1.0.bin Adding firmware /lib/firmware/cxgb3/t3fw-7.12.0.bin Adding module /lib/modules/3.13.0-40-generic/kernel/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4vf/cxgb4vf.ko Adding module /lib/modules/3.13.0-40-generic/kernel/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cxgb4.ko Adding firmware /lib/firmware/cxgb4/t5fw.bin Adding firmware /lib/firmware/cxgb4/t4fw.bin Adding firmware /lib/firmware/cxgb4/t5fw.bin Adding firmware /lib/firmware/cxgb4/t4fw.bin Adding module /lib/modules/3.13.0-40-generic/kernel/drivers/scsi/cxgbi/libcxgbi.ko Adding module /lib/modules/3.13.0-40-generic/kernel/drivers/scsi/cxgbi/cxgb4i/cxgb4i.ko Adding module /lib/modules/3.13.0-40-generic/kernel/drivers/scsi/cxgbi/cxgb3i/cxgb3i.ko rm -f ./lib/firmware/cxgb4/t5fw.bin rm -f ./lib/firmware/cxgb4/t4fw.bin root@ceph-eng-osd-walter:~# To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-firmware/+bug/1400413/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
