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Re: Debian unstable/expirental missing some bnx2 firmwares



On 31.10.2011 14:31, Ben Hutchings wrote:
On Mon, 2011-10-31 at 11:25 +0200, Dmitry Kravkov wrote:
On Sun, 2011-10-30 at 08:06 -0700, Ben Hutchings wrote:
On Sun, 2011-10-30 at 10:49 +0100, Sébastien Riccio wrote:
On 30.10.2011 10:42, Niels Thykier wrote:
Our upstream for (most of) firmware-nonfree is the linux-firmware
repository, and it appears that Broadcom never sent version 6.2.9.0 of
the bnx2x firmware there.  It's also possible that the request was
dropped somewhere along the way.

Hi Ben,
The firmware was submitted to firmware/bnx2x folder using
96b8e1a0e96bd30ffb07e739b29b8c4c5759b93f in IHEX form with appropriate
changes in firmware/Makefile and firmware/WHENCE.
So it's in the linux tree but not linux-firmware?  Well that's fairly
useless.

David, we need to either keep on importing changes from the linux tree
or get rid of the firmware directory altogether.  I notice that one new
driver has even added a blob there recently.

Ben.


I don't understand everything that has been said about this topic, I'll ask a simple question: are the firmwares going to be included in the firmware-bnx2x package anytime soon or is there a way to build them and add them manually on a debian unstable machine ?

thanks :)

Sébastien


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