Re: PATCH: fix multiple eMagic 6|2m regressions introduced in 2.6.27
From: Clemens Ladisch
Date: Tue Nov 24 2009 - 04:53:04 EST
David Woodhouse wrote:
> Where did the new firmware come from?
Sorry, I snipped that part of Monty's mail:
> > This problem can be traced to the
> > linux/firmware/emi62/bistream.HEX file, which is loading different
> > FPGA firmware as compared to the driver pre-2.6.27. In fact, it is
> > loading an exact copy of the bistream firmware file that belongs to
> > the emi26 driver rather than the firmware that previously belonged to
> > the emi62. A new firmware/emi62/bitstream.HEX file generated from the
> > old driver's header corrects the problem and the 6|2 works as it did
> > before.
> >
> > Note that the current firmware/emi62/bitstream.HEX mistakenly
> > identifies itself as:
> >
> > // VERSION= 1.0.0.191
> > // DATE= 2002oct28
> >
> > ...this is incorrect and apparently cut out of the old emi62 driver's
> > firmware header and pasted onto the other firmware file.
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/