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[stable] Adding bnx2x driver in 5.0.3



The bnx2x driver was disabled in lenny due to its use of non-free
firmware. I have put together a patch that would reenable this driver
in lenny's 2.6.26 kernel, making use of the firmware split-out patch
that has gone upstream in Linux 2.6.31-rc releases (and is currently
in use in the linux-2.6 2.6.30 packages in sid).

I'd like to see if we can enable the use of this driver in 5.0.3.
As far as I can tell, the necessary steps would be:

 - Update the kernel (obviously) - planned for a p-u upload this week
 - Backport the necessary changes for firmware-nonfree from sid to add
   the firmware-bnx2x package
 - Update kernel-wedge/stable to include bnx2x if available (are there
   space issues here?)
 - Update d-i in 5.0.3 to incorporate this driver

-- 
dann frazier


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