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On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:23:33 -0400
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Ivan Kabaivanov <chepati@×××××.com> wrote:
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> On Thursday 27 March 2008 19:05, Ferris McCormick wrote: |
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> > On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:06:47 -0400 |
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> > |
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> [snip] |
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> > > you're almost there. Get the binary firmware from |
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> > > ftp://ftp.qlogic.com/outgoing/linux/firmware (just get the .bin files, |
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> > > not the .bin-version files). There are five or six files altogether. |
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> > > You don't need all, but they are relatively small so it's no big deal |
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> > > putting all of them in /lib/firmware. |
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> > |
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> > Actually, you can get the firmware by |
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> > emerge qla-fc-firmware |
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> > (We have a package for it). |
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> > Also, if you want to try it, you can now use genkernel for building |
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> > this (although it sounds like you are close enough that you would |
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> > likely lose time that way). The trick with genkernel is that the |
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> > stable version probably will not work, but the ~sparc version will |
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> > (that is, sys-kernel/genkernel-3.4.10_pre7). |
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> > |
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> > > Make sure on the initramfs you have /etc/udev/rules.d/ with appropriate |
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> > > rules, including one to handle firmware loading. Also make sure you have |
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> > > on the initramfs /lib/udev/firmware.sh. This script is part of udev. |
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> > > Just copy it. |
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> > Interesting. Does that approach work? (I guess it must because you |
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> > seem to be using it.) Normally, the qla2xxxx driver loads the firmware |
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> > (and when you use genkernel, you also build the driver as a module and |
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> > put the firmware into the initrd). I'm interested to see how this |
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> > works. |
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> Ferris, |
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> Indeed it works -- that's the way our ipcop-sparc initramfs loads the |
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> firmware. I did try it without udev but simply modprobing the module did not |
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> load the firmware. |
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> If you're interested I can send you our ipcop-sparc initramfs image. |
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> IvanK. |
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> [snip] |
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I think I know what it must look like. I'm just trying to guess why it
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works. I guess that udev must set up the devices, because the driver
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can't without the firmware. Clearly you've thought about this a lot
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more than I have. (Or maybe I'm just confusing myself. :) )
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Raúl, this might be of use to you?
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> -- |
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> gentoo-sparc@l.g.o mailing list |
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Regards,
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- --
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Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <fmccor@g.o>
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Developer, Gentoo Linux (Sparc, Devrel, Userrel, Trustees)
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