On Wednesday 19 September 2007 22:43, Michael Chan wrote:
On Wed, 2007-09-19 at 21:29 +0100, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
Are you saying that you successfully run-tested it?
I've only reviewed the code. Let's resolve these issues first before
testing the code.
Please test these two patches.
I
On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 15:49 +0100, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
Please test these two patches.
I updated them according to your comments.
I've only tested patch #1. It worked after some minor modifications
below.
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document
attachment
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rc6.bnx2-1.patch)
On Tuesday 18 September 2007 21:05, Michael Chan wrote:
The bnx2 firmware changes quite frequently. A new driver quite often
requires new firmware to work correctly. Splitting them up makes things
difficult for the user.
sounds reasonable.
I see that bnx2 has support for unpacking gzipped
David Miller wrote:
From: Michael Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 13:05:51 -0700
The bnx2 firmware changes quite frequently. A new driver quite often
requires new firmware to work correctly. Splitting them up makes things
difficult for the user.
The firmware in tg3 is a lot
From: Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 09:40:14 -0400
Is that a suggestion that the driver work differently when built as a
module or built in?
Absolutely.
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On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Michael Chan wrote:
The bnx2 firmware changes quite frequently. A new driver quite often
requires new firmware to work correctly. Splitting them up makes things
difficult for the user.
sorry didn't check, what's the license of the firmware?
The firmware in tg3 is a
From: maximilian attems [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 18:33:18 +0200
we have to strip the firmware for Debian for the upcoming Lenny release.
Why do you have to? The vendor has given you explicit rights
to distribute it:
* Firmware is:
* Derived from proprietary unpublished
hello dave,
i appreciate a lot your opinon, but please cool down.
this is not a four spin on your beloved pipe. :)
On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 09:38:32AM -0700, David Miller wrote:
From: maximilian attems [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 18:33:18 +0200
we have to strip the firmware for
On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
Anyway - if we again consider klibc I will do my best to make the
build stuff as smooth as possible.
Sam
nitpicking mode on
currently klibc has tendency to rebuild a bit too much if you
touch some part of it, seen in usr/utils
for the main
maximilian attems wrote:
On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
Anyway - if we again consider klibc I will do my best to make the
build stuff as smooth as possible.
Sam
nitpicking mode on
currently klibc has tendency to rebuild a bit too much if you
touch some part of it, seen
On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 10:12:38AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
Could you give a concrete example?
-hpa
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/src/klibc$ touch usr/utils/mount_main.c
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/src/klibc$ make
KLIBCCC usr/utils/mount_main.o
KLIBCLD usr/utils/static/halt
LN
Hi Maks.
On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 07:18:41PM +0200, maximilian attems wrote:
On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 10:12:38AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
Could you give a concrete example?
-hpa
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/src/klibc$ touch usr/utils/mount_main.c
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/src/klibc$ make
On Wed, 2007-09-19 at 09:30 +0100, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
+ /* gzip header (1f,8b,08... 10 bytes total + possible asciz filename)
+* is stripped, 32-bit unpacked size (LE) is prepended instead */
+ sz = *zbuf++;
+ sz = (sz 8) + *zbuf++;
+ sz = (sz 8) + *zbuf++;
+
On Wednesday 19 September 2007 22:00, Michael Chan wrote:
On Wed, 2007-09-19 at 09:30 +0100, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
+ /* gzip header (1f,8b,08... 10 bytes total + possible asciz filename)
+* is stripped, 32-bit unpacked size (LE) is prepended instead */
+ sz = *zbuf++;
+
On Wed, 2007-09-19 at 21:29 +0100, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
Are you saying that you successfully run-tested it?
I've only reviewed the code. Let's resolve these issues first before
testing the code.
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On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 18:23 +0100, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
Hi Michael,
In bnx2_fw.h I see the following:
static u32 bnx2_RXP_b06FwBss[(0x13dc/4) + 1] = { 0x0 };
static struct fw_info bnx2_rxp_fw_06 = {
...
.bss= bnx2_RXP_b06FwBss,
...
};
I grepped
On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 18:55 +0100, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
On Tuesday 18 September 2007 19:45, Michael Chan wrote:
We can compress all the different sections of the firmware. Currently,
we only compress the biggest chunks and the rest are uncompressed.
These zeros should compress to almost
From: Michael Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 11:45:14 -0700
On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 18:23 +0100, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
Do you have any plans to switch to request_firmware() interface,
which will allow you to avoid keeping firmware in unswappable kernel
memory and thus free
On Tuesday 18 September 2007 19:45, Michael Chan wrote:
We can compress all the different sections of the firmware. Currently,
we only compress the biggest chunks and the rest are uncompressed.
These zeros should compress to almost nothing. But I agree that the
firmware is still big.
You
From: H. Peter Anvin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 11:41:34 -0700
David Miller wrote:
I don't like it because it means people have to setup full initrd's
in order to do network booting with such network cards.
klibc could help with that, if there is interest in exploring
From: Michael Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 13:05:51 -0700
The bnx2 firmware changes quite frequently. A new driver quite often
requires new firmware to work correctly. Splitting them up makes things
difficult for the user.
The firmware in tg3 is a lot more mature and I
David Miller wrote:
From: H. Peter Anvin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 11:41:34 -0700
David Miller wrote:
I don't like it because it means people have to setup full initrd's
in order to do network booting with such network cards.
klibc could help with that, if there is interest
From: H. Peter Anvin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 12:27:04 -0700
Well, what I was referring to here, of course, was the initramfs
integrated in the kernel image, so it all comes out of the kernel build
tree and produces a single bootable image. The fact that part of it
contains
On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 01:08:10PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
From: H. Peter Anvin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 12:27:04 -0700
Well, what I was referring to here, of course, was the initramfs
integrated in the kernel image, so it all comes out of the kernel build
tree and
Sam Ravnborg wrote:
Except there seems to be great resistance to include userland code in the
kernel as demonstrated at last KS. Or this is maybe just a single vocal
person and the topic were brought up late?
Anyway - if we again consider klibc I will do my best to make the
build stuff as
On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 12:21:50PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
From: Michael Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 13:05:51 -0700
The bnx2 firmware changes quite frequently. A new driver quite often
requires new firmware to work correctly. Splitting them up makes things
On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 02:31:34PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
From: Willy Tarreau [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 23:30:25 +0200
On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 12:21:50PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
From: Michael Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 13:05:51 -0700
The
From: Willy Tarreau [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 23:30:25 +0200
On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 12:21:50PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
From: Michael Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 13:05:51 -0700
The bnx2 firmware changes quite frequently. A new driver quite often
On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 23:37 +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote:
Michael, doesn't a functional-yet-suboptimal firmware exist ? I mean,
just the same principle as we all have kernels, boot CDs, statically
built tools, etc... which run everywhere. If you have such a beast,
maybe it would be a
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