Re: [PATCH] bnx2: update bnx2-mips-09 firmware to bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1b

[Chris Webb]

Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Have you read firmware/README.AddingFirmware ?

I hadn't, but now I have, and if firmware upgrades are considered 'adding
new firmware', I agree this patch is wrong, and should have just removed the
obsolete bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1a file that is no longer used by the bnx2 driver.

However, not having dealt with cards that need these kinds of horrible
binary blobs before, I'm a little uncertain how I should be building
upstream kernels with CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL and pulling in the correct
blobs from a linux-firmware checkout.

Is there a more automatic method than going through the source for each
configured driver and setting CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE manually to list the
relevant firmwares? Is there any way to give the kernel the location of
linux-firmware and have it compile in everything needed for the selected
drivers, as used to happen with the firmware/ subdirectory?
CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR doesn't seem to do anything with
CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE empty, so I don't think it does what I'm hoping?

Cheers,

Chris.
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