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Re: 2.6.32 experimental



On Fri, 2009-11-20 at 15:25 +0100, Stefan Lippers-Hollmann wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On Friday 20 November 2009, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > I intend to upload 2.6.32-rc8 to experimental today.
> [...]
> 
> Just a heads up, drivers/staging/rtl8192e/r819xE_phy.c (a newly merged 
> staging driver in 2.6.32) may have introduced new firmware blobs:
> - Rtl8190PciAGCTAB_Array
> - Rtl8190PciPHY_REGArray
> - Rtl8190PciPHY_REG_1T2RArray
> - Rtl8190PciRadioA_Array
> - Rtl8190PciRadioB_Array
> - Rtl8190PciRadioC_Array
> - Rtl8190PciRadioD_Array
> - Rtl8192PciEAGCTAB_Array
> - Rtl8192PciEPHY_REG_1T2RArray
> - Rtl8192PciERadioA_Array
> - Rtl8192PciERadioB_Array
> - possibly more
> 
> basically the same content which was pruned from 
> 	drivers/staging/rtl8192su/r8192S_FwImgDTM.h		(dropped in 2.6.32)
> 	drivers/staging/rtl8192su/r8192SU_HWImg.c
> 	drivers/staging/rtl8192su/r819xU_firmware_img.c	(dropped in 2.6.32)
> in 2.6.31, therefore I'd suggest to add the following patch (applies to
> r14655 of dists/trunk/linux-2.6/):

I do check for big tables of numbers in the diff for each new kernel
version.  These are lookup tables, not firmware.

[...]
> By the way, is there some kind of description how to extract rtl8168d-1.fw 
> and rtl8168d-2.fw from the vanilla kernel source? I would have access to a 
> RTL8168d/8111d, RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_25 device and it seems to be pretty common
> on newer mainboards).
> 	eth0: RTL8168d/8111d at 0xf7e1a000, 00:1c:c0:ee:12:58, XID 081000c0 IRQ 28

No, I'll try to add them to firmware-nonfree some time before uploading
to unstable.

> Please consider applying http://bugs.debian.org/555680#15 as well, to 
> remove some additional means of providing a wlan password from bugreports.

I will do, but probably not for this upload.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Humour is the best antidote to reality.

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