John Russo wrote:
How about something along the lines of a firmware update tool built into OFED
that checks the HCA for the proper firmware and gives the user to download the
current version. It could automatically pull from Mellanox's site and
therefore avoid the licensing issue while still providing a customer service.
Hmm. That might work. The tool could easily do a wget also to pull it
down and place it in /lib/firmware...
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[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Woodruff, Robert J
Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 1:17 PM
To: Steve Wise; [email protected]
Cc: OpenFabrics EWG
Subject: RE: [ewg] shipping firmware with ofed
Steve Wrote,
I request that we do add this. Forcing customers to download firmware
isn't very user friendly.
It should be fairly easy to do, yes? I would take on the work involved
to add the infrastructure needed...
All that would be needed, I think, is to make a src rpm that allows
generating an rpm that will install the firmware in /lib/firmware. Each
provider could manage their own. Or we could have a "firmware" src rpm
that holds all the providers' firmware images...
Thoughts?
Steve.
If people submit firmware to ofed, then would it have to be submitted
under the dual BSD/GPL license as agreed to in the OFA bylaws. If so,
then you would probably have to submit the firmware source code as well,
and I am not sure if you are willing to do that...
woody
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