Re: [PATCH linux-firmware] linux-firmware: bnx2: Update mips firmware to fix iSCSI problems

On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 04:49:10PM +0000, Michael Chan wrote:

Eric Dumazet wrote:

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Le dimanche 18 décembre 2011 à 20:13 -0800, Michael Chan a écrit :

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New firmware fixes iSCSI problems with some LeftHand targets that

don't

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set TTT=0xffffffff for Data-In according to spec.  Firmware generates
exception warnings for this condition and becomes very slow.  This is
fixed by suppressing these warnings when using default error mask.

Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
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 WHENCE                      |    2 ++
 bnx2/bnx2-mips-06-6.2.3.fw  |  Bin 0 -> 92824 bytes
 bnx2/bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1b.fw |  Bin 0 -> 103904 bytes
 3 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 bnx2/bnx2-mips-06-6.2.3.fw
 create mode 100644 bnx2/bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1b.fw

IMHO, this should be applied _before_ the drivers/net patch.

Ben,

If David Woodhouse is not available, can you help us apply this firmware
patch?

Yes, but please don't expect instant response.

Ben.

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