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On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:23:33 -0400
Ivan Kabaivanov <chepati@...> wrote:

> On Thursday 27 March 2008 19:05, Ferris McCormick wrote:
> > On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:06:47 -0400
> >
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > > you're almost there.  Get the binary firmware from
> > > ftp://ftp.qlogic.com/outgoing/linux/firmware (just get the .bin files,
> > > not the .bin-version files).  There are five or six files altogether. 
> > > You don't need all, but they are relatively small so it's no big deal
> > > putting all of them in /lib/firmware.
> >
> > Actually, you can get the firmware by
> > emerge qla-fc-firmware
> > (We have a package for it).
> >
> > Also, if you want to try it, you can now use genkernel for building
> > this (although it sounds like you are close enough that you would
> > likely lose time that way).  The trick with genkernel is that the
> > stable version probably will not work, but the ~sparc version will
> > (that is, sys-kernel/genkernel-3.4.10_pre7).
> >
> > > Make sure on the initramfs you have /etc/udev/rules.d/ with appropriate
> > > rules, including one to handle firmware loading.  Also make sure you have
> > > on the initramfs /lib/udev/firmware.sh.  This script is part of udev. 
> > > Just copy it.
> >
> > Interesting.  Does that approach work? (I guess it must because you
> > seem to be using it.)  Normally, the qla2xxxx driver loads the firmware
> > (and when you use genkernel, you also build the driver as a module and
> > put the firmware into the initrd).  I'm interested to see how this
> > works.
> 
> Ferris,
> 
> Indeed it works -- that's the way our ipcop-sparc initramfs loads the 
> firmware.  I did try it without udev but simply modprobing the module did not 
> load the firmware.
> 
> If you're interested I can send you our ipcop-sparc initramfs image.
> 
> IvanK.
> 
> [snip]
> d
> 

I think I know what it must look like.  I'm just trying to guess why it
works.  I guess that udev must set up the devices, because the driver
can't without the firmware. Clearly you've thought about this a lot
more than I have.  (Or maybe I'm just confusing myself. :) )

Raúl, this might be of use to you?
> -- 
> gentoo-sparc@g.o mailing list
> 

Regards,
- -- 
Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <fmccor@g.o>
Developer, Gentoo Linux (Sparc, Devrel, Userrel, Trustees)
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