Frederick,
For iSCSI HBA's the firmware is carried in FLASH and is not bundled with
the driver (qla4xxx).
For Fibre Channel, the drivers do carry the firmware binary as you
mentioned. We changed the license verbiage last year in an attempt to
address Debian's concerns about the wording relative to the firmware binary.
So if I understand correctly, the Debian release based on 2.6-18 should
also include the Fibre Channel driver 8.01.07-k1.
Thanks,
Dave
Frederik Schueler wrote:
Hello,
On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 05:26:38PM -0800, David Wagner wrote:
I'm trying to get in sync with which QLogic driver (Fibre Channel or
iSCSI) versions (if any) are presently included in Debian releases.
qla2xxx driven FC HBAs work fine, but you will need the firmware-qlogic
package from non-free to get them working correctly.
The qla4xxx driver for qlogic iSCSI devices is not included in 2.6.18,
and therefore the corresponding devices are not supported by etch (now).
AFAIK this driver was merged in 2.6.19.
For future releases, are the drivers obtained from whatever is in the
kernel tree?
Plans exist to update the kernel in a future point release, in order to
support newer hardware.
But the qla4xxx drivers require a firmware blob, which will not be added
to etch - if it will be packaged at all due to the restrictive licensing.
Best regards
Frederik Schueler
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