Re: [PATCH linux-firmware] linux-firmware: bnx2: Update mips firmware to fix iSCSI problems

Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> · Mon, 26 Dec 2011 19:31:28 +0100

On Wed, 2011-12-21 at 16:49 +0000, Michael Chan wrote:
> Eric Dumazet wrote:
> 
> > Le dimanche 18 décembre 2011 à 20:13 -0800, Michael Chan a écrit :
> > > New firmware fixes iSCSI problems with some LeftHand targets that
> > don't
> > > set TTT=0xffffffff for Data-In according to spec.  Firmware generates
> > > exception warnings for this condition and becomes very slow.  This is
> > > fixed by suppressing these warnings when using default error mask.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > >  WHENCE                      |    2 ++
> > >  bnx2/bnx2-mips-06-6.2.3.fw  |  Bin 0 -> 92824 bytes
> > >  bnx2/bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1b.fw |  Bin 0 -> 103904 bytes
> > >  3 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> > >  create mode 100644 bnx2/bnx2-mips-06-6.2.3.fw
> > >  create mode 100644 bnx2/bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1b.fw
> > 
> > IMHO, this should be applied _before_ the drivers/net patch.
> > 
> 
> Ben,
> 
> If David Woodhouse is not available, can you help us apply this firmware
> patch?

Applied and pushed out.

Ben.

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