Bug#459546: linux-image-2.6.18-5-xen-686: bnx2 fails to work with xen bridging

[dann frazier <dannf@debian.org>]

On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 09:59:10AM +0100, Xavier Poinsard wrote:
> Package: linux-image-2.6.18-5-xen-686
> Version: 2.6.18.dfsg.1-17
> Severity: important
> 
> 
> The shipped version of the bnx2 driver fails to work with xen bridging.
> With an updated version like this one :
> http://linux.dell.com/files/bnx2/xen-fix/
> the network driver is working. This bug fix is detailled in the driver
> changelog.
> Updating this driver would save many users of xen having this broadcom
> network card.

hey Xavier,
 This seems like a reasonable bug to fix in a stable update. However
an important part of accepting something into a stable release
(possibly the most important part) is demonstrating a high confidence
that this will not break things for other users. Since this patch
requires a firmware blob update, its not possible for us to do that
with this patch alone.

Michael: Do you know (and can you share) what the changes were to the
fw in this changeset?
  http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=af3ee519c5d6bebbda9bf0ca3b81bc50b4dd2163

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dann frazier