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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