Bug 42756

Summary: latest bnx2x driver requests fw 7.0.2[39] but kernel only includes fw 6.2.9
Product: Drivers Reporter: Peter Marquardt (wwwutz)
Component: NetworkAssignee: drivers_network (drivers_network)
Status: NEW ---    
Severity: normal CC: szg00000, wwwutz
Priority: P1    
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Kernel Version: 3.1 up to 3.3 Subsystem:
Regression: Yes Bisected commit-id:

Description Peter Marquardt 2012-02-10 08:09:18 UTC 
Hi,

The git firmware reposititory contains the latest and greatest bnx2x broadcom 10 GBit nic drivers

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git;a=summary

and the latest driver sources request version 7.0.2[39] but the firmware binary is missing in the kernel release

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git;a=tree;f=firmware/bnx2x;hb=HEAD


suggested fix: replace binaries in firmware/bnx2x/* with the version requested in
drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_hsi.h	

2702 #define BCM_5710_FW_MAJOR_VERSION               7
2703 #define BCM_5710_FW_MINOR_VERSION               0
2704 #define BCM_5710_FW_REVISION_VERSION           29
2705 #define BCM_5710_FW_ENGINEERING_VERSION         0

Is any more information needed ?

... as usual, I'm missing the point, I'm totally oldschool and I'm using outdated code 8-) 

 thanks,

    Peter Marquardt