Bug#779128: firmware-bnx2x needs 7.10.51 drivers from upstream for kernel 3.18+ in experimental
Package: firmware-bnx2x
Version: 0.43
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
Installed experimental 3.19 kernel on jessie host with a bnx2x ethernet card, and update-initramfs couldn't find appropriate firmware, leading to inability to boot this kernel with network access. Hacked around it locally by manually installing updated upstream firmware from https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/tree/bnx2x into /lib/firmware/ manually. The new driver/firmware versions (bnx2x-*-7.10.51.0.fw) are required by the bnx2x driver in kernel 3.18 and higher.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
APT prefers testing-updates
APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.19.0-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
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