Re: [PATCH 0/2] wd719x: Introduce Western Digital WD7193/7197/7296 PCI SCSI card driver

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Wed Oct 01 2014 - 14:19:15 EST


On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 08:56:46PM +0200, Ondrej Zary wrote:
> The card requires firmware that can be cut out of the Windows NT driver that
> can be downloaded from WD at:
> http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?groupid=801&sid=27&lang=en
> There is no license anywhere in the file or on the page - so I guess that the
> firmware cannot be added to linux-firmware.
>
> This script downloads and extracts the firmware:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> wget http://support.wdc.com/download/archive/pciscsi.exe
> lha xi pciscsi.exe pci-scsi.exe
> lha xi pci-scsi.exe nt/wd7296a.sys
> rm pci-scsi.exe
> dd if=wd7296a.sys of=wd719x-risc.bin bs=1 skip=5760 count=14336
> dd if=wd7296a.sys of=wd719x-wcs.bin bs=1 skip=20096 count=514
> rm wd7296a.sys

Might be worth to add this script to the tree somewhere.

I'd be happy to merge the driver, but I'd love to get a second review
for it first.

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