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Bug#409298: marked as done (firmware-qlogic description is inadequate)



Your message dated Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:31:38 +0100
with message-id <20081120173138.GK26909@wavehammer.waldi.eu.org>
and subject line firmware-qlogic description expanded
has caused the Debian Bug report #409298,
regarding firmware-qlogic description is inadequate
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Package: initramfs-tools
Version: 0.85e

Hi,

The other day I tried to boot a Sun Fire 280R that works nicely with kernel
2.4.30; however, it didn't work, because the qla2xxx driver can't find
the firmware image, and it fails to load properly, meaning I can't access
the hard disks in the machine, and... flop. :)

I worked around this by including the proprietary file downloaded from the
URL provided in kernel config help, ql2200_fw.bin, using a hook file.

It was necessary to load qla2xxx *after* init-premount, because it needs
udev to load in order to access firmware helper.

But, for udev to actually use the firmware helper, it sounds like this is
also needed:
copy_exec /lib/udev/firmware.agent /lib/udev/

After that, the hook file that installs into /lib/firmware also needed:
mkdir -p ${DESTDIR}/lib/firmware

Those two problems are more general; another cp/copy_exec for the actual
file is probably a matter for another package, with license issues sorting
and all that.

Cf. http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2007/01/msg00074.html and
http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2007/02/msg00002.html

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Version: 0.13

The description now mentions qla2xxx and many other informations.

Bastian

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