From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-ob0-f173.google.com (mail-ob0-f173.google.com [209.85.214.173]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 169682BF2 for ; Fri, 25 Mar 2016 02:32:16 +0100 (CET) Received: by mail-ob0-f173.google.com with SMTP id xj3so50844878obb.0 for ; Thu, 24 Mar 2016 18:32:16 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc; bh=p7tOBdwZdE1+pQzHl89n+mgXO+/vr5X9sSpp9PNrV3U=; b=tVVIUu118ZPfpFamMwHKBG33PLlGUQwGWeLHYenqeMjis5JcOusfiTyxI5DPVRFeoj DYBzdW0JmfTjgEW8/QNpnaeGnH55JRo2kl4fWPNuUuioI/fAWCERa6rb5WwT8LO+k8vP YbJs9/uYiSx0Spwlz7cQPndtLlQJXCCHdFJTKZTdeDrtmvNjltyluUrIn2jvuGOdwu9i /OYSDkgxBPZ5Jkm7GWipi2iBtsI0TfdNm90t2buIVFWFBTIu4QNJVSw+4NhByBEly+fw tkhPSE3kLo9maNjda4/Z89CxF/JexU608ztBkvpQ7R3SkbxJqsSdGGQUcZkK/B+eYXJp YEhw== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=p7tOBdwZdE1+pQzHl89n+mgXO+/vr5X9sSpp9PNrV3U=; b=hAypXQaSWQSrbcxY/jvvYGS6kZWrpmpgDCnEmaMGVvjGomth9RHRjlO1nff0wehBCc 7CxHWDMhZr9KhGbnfwypGMyIXamQKooNK3PKTDhIYWeD51tS+bMYzyy2KgZsxwMzF+e4 7BUAqRSBFEIaROJUTV9ttSa8eDXOuggqxUk61KAO+nGG9vA/g1Xg8Zc0LZxGQyp4AXm6 pK/pNCfb4HVGlAor5Uf5ht1QGR4duaKhsFB3+MHjIVzuAnFtfY2TWeotCTNVClrp8IeN M4jyILmBkznDL6y4/tq3Cq8+zsRElT2OAXiLU8tyxf/4gzn8jz3bRoPF3zMq8dBbZbRx ha2g== X-Gm-Message-State: AD7BkJL6s+yG1fihI5Vj2LTu9wExYuUl4D7UJkOanKZ9AsJeuG9DFEuMhxLmQ/M97M/ndzDZtdQt+ny1B0KLGg== X-Received: by 10.60.178.202 with SMTP id da10mr5719746oec.11.1458869535526; Thu, 24 Mar 2016 18:32:15 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.157.42.17 with HTTP; Thu, 24 Mar 2016 18:31:46 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: From: =?UTF-8?B?TWFydGlueCAtIOOCuOOCp+ODvOODoOOCug==?= Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2016 22:31:46 -0300 Message-ID: To: Harish Patil Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.15 Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] Updating bnx2x firmware X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2016 01:32:16 -0000 On 24 March 2016 at 19:03, Harish Patil 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=E2=80=99t 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/t= re > 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