[dpdk-dev] Updating bnx2x firmware

[Harish Patil]

>
>Guys,
>
> Currently, the bnx2x.c driver looks for the following firmware files
>(when
>PMD is enabled for it):
>
>---
>$ ~/sources/dpdk/dpdk-2.2.0/drivers/net/bnx2x$ grep lib\/firmware *
>bnx2x.c:#define FW_NAME_57711 "/lib/firmware/bnx2x/bnx2x-e1h-7.2.51.0.fw"
>bnx2x.c:#define FW_NAME_57810 "/lib/firmware/bnx2x/bnx2x-e2-7.2.51.0.fw"
>---
>
> Files bnx2x-e1h-7.2.51.0.fw and bnx2x-e2-7.2.51.0.fw.
>
>
> However, on Ubuntu 16.04, the package linux-firmware comes with:
>
>---
>$ dpkg -L linux-firmware | grep -i bnx2x
>/lib/firmware/bnx2x/bnx2x-e1h-7.12.30.0.fw
>/lib/firmware/bnx2x/bnx2x-e1-7.12.30.0.fw
>/lib/firmware/bnx2x/bnx2x-e1-7.13.1.0.fw
>/lib/firmware/bnx2x/bnx2x-e2-7.12.30.0.fw
>/lib/firmware/bnx2x/bnx2x-e1h-7.13.1.0.fw
>/lib/firmware/bnx2x/bnx2x-e2-7.13.1.0.fw
>---
>
>
> Is it okay to just point bnx2x.c to a new version and rebuild it ?
>
> For example: bnx2x-e1h-7.13.1.0.fw and bnx2x-e2-7.13.1.0.fw ?
>
>
> I would prefer to not manually download old firmware from Github:
>
> https://github.com/cernekee/linux-firmware/tree/master/bnx2x
>
>
>Thanks,
>Thiago
>

Hi Thiago
Any reason why you don’t prefer to get the required FW file from other
source?

You can certainly download it from:
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/tre
e/bnx2x

Any other FW is an untested combination.
 
Thanks,
Harish