Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] bnx2: update bnx2-mips-09 firmware to bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1b | From | Ben Hutchings <> | Date | Sat, 14 Jul 2012 05:27:06 +0100 |
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On Fri, 2012-07-13 at 15:09 +0100, Chris Webb wrote: > Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> writes: > > > Have you read firmware/README.AddingFirmware ? > > I hadn't, but now I have, and if firmware upgrades are considered 'adding > new firmware', I agree this patch is wrong, and should have just removed the > obsolete bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1a file that is no longer used by the bnx2 driver. > > However, not having dealt with cards that need these kinds of horrible > binary blobs before, I'm a little uncertain how I should be building > upstream kernels with CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL and pulling in the correct > blobs from a linux-firmware checkout. > > Is there a more automatic method than going through the source for each > configured driver and setting CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE manually to list the > relevant firmwares? Is there any way to give the kernel the location of > linux-firmware and have it compile in everything needed for the selected > drivers, as used to happen with the firmware/ subdirectory? > CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR doesn't seem to do anything with > CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE empty, so I don't think it does what I'm hoping?
I had a go at making CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL pick the right blobs automatically <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1230462>, but I couldn't get the Kbuild rules quite right. No-one responded and I haven't had another try since.
Ben.
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