CentOS virt - Jul 2015 - missing bnx2x firmware files in Xen4CentOS CentOS6 kernel 3.18.12-11

Hi folks

As mentioned in the subject, kernel-3.18.12-11 is missing firmware files 
required to run Broadcom/Qlogic network cards, driven by bnx2x driver.
While in the source-rpm, there is a bnx2/bnx2x firmware tgz being 
applied during the rpm build, along with a patch adding these firmware 
files to firmware/Makefile, neither the tgz nor the patch contain the 
required firmware files. In 3.18, the driver bumped to version 
1.710.51-0, requiring the following firmware files/versions to work:

firmware:       bnx2x/bnx2x-e2-7.10.51.0.fw
firmware:       bnx2x/bnx2x-e1h-7.10.51.0.fw
firmware:       bnx2x/bnx2x-e1-7.10.51.0.fw

I helped myself by either copying the required firmware-files to the 
target-machines' /lib/firmware/bnx2x dir and ultimately by adding the 
files to the source-rpm along with a new Makefile patch and rebuilding 
the kernel rpms.

However, as bnx2x NICs seem quite commonplace these days, I suggest to 
fix this 'upstream'. If required, I can provide the (trivial) patch. I 
pulled the firmware-files from a CentOS 7 stock kernel.

Regards
Thomas

On 07/05/2015 11:35 AM, T.Weyergraf wrote:
> Hi folks
> 
> As mentioned in the subject, kernel-3.18.12-11 is missing firmware files
> required to run Broadcom/Qlogic network cards, driven by bnx2x driver.
> While in the source-rpm, there is a bnx2/bnx2x firmware tgz being
> applied during the rpm build, along with a patch adding these firmware
> files to firmware/Makefile, neither the tgz nor the patch contain the
> required firmware files. In 3.18, the driver bumped to version
> 1.710.51-0, requiring the following firmware files/versions to work:
> 
> firmware:       bnx2x/bnx2x-e2-7.10.51.0.fw
> firmware:       bnx2x/bnx2x-e1h-7.10.51.0.fw
> firmware:       bnx2x/bnx2x-e1-7.10.51.0.fw
> 
> I helped myself by either copying the required firmware-files to the
> target-machines' /lib/firmware/bnx2x dir and ultimately by adding the
> files to the source-rpm along with a new Makefile patch and rebuilding
> the kernel rpms.
> 
> However, as bnx2x NICs seem quite commonplace these days, I suggest to
> fix this 'upstream'. If required, I can provide the (trivial)
patch. I
> pulled the firmware-files from a CentOS 7 stock kernel.
> 
Let me take a look ... I have not updated the tgz file from the main
upstream kernel tree in a while.


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On 07/05/2015 11:35 AM, T.Weyergraf wrote:
> Hi folks
> 
> As mentioned in the subject, kernel-3.18.12-11 is missing firmware files
> required to run Broadcom/Qlogic network cards, driven by bnx2x driver.
> While in the source-rpm, there is a bnx2/bnx2x firmware tgz being
> applied during the rpm build, along with a patch adding these firmware
> files to firmware/Makefile, neither the tgz nor the patch contain the
> required firmware files. In 3.18, the driver bumped to version
> 1.710.51-0, requiring the following firmware files/versions to work:
> 
> firmware:       bnx2x/bnx2x-e2-7.10.51.0.fw
> firmware:       bnx2x/bnx2x-e1h-7.10.51.0.fw
> firmware:       bnx2x/bnx2x-e1-7.10.51.0.fw
> 
> I helped myself by either copying the required firmware-files to the
> target-machines' /lib/firmware/bnx2x dir and ultimately by adding the
> files to the source-rpm along with a new Makefile patch and rebuilding
> the kernel rpms.
> 
> However, as bnx2x NICs seem quite commonplace these days, I suggest to
> fix this 'upstream'. If required, I can provide the (trivial)
patch. I
> pulled the firmware-files from a CentOS 7 stock kernel.
> 
> Regards
> Thomas
Thomas,

Please see if this kernel solves your issues:

http://people.centos.org/hughesjr/xen-kernel/x86_64/Packages/

Thanks,
Johnny Hughes


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On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 8:43 PM, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org>
wrote:
> On 07/05/2015 11:35 AM, T.Weyergraf wrote:
>> Hi folks
>>
>> As mentioned in the subject, kernel-3.18.12-11 is missing firmware
files
>> required to run Broadcom/Qlogic network cards, driven by bnx2x driver.
>> While in the source-rpm, there is a bnx2/bnx2x firmware tgz being
>> applied during the rpm build, along with a patch adding these firmware
>> files to firmware/Makefile, neither the tgz nor the patch contain the
>> required firmware files. In 3.18, the driver bumped to version
>> 1.710.51-0, requiring the following firmware files/versions to work:
>>
>> firmware:       bnx2x/bnx2x-e2-7.10.51.0.fw
>> firmware:       bnx2x/bnx2x-e1h-7.10.51.0.fw
>> firmware:       bnx2x/bnx2x-e1-7.10.51.0.fw
>>
>> I helped myself by either copying the required firmware-files to the
>> target-machines' /lib/firmware/bnx2x dir and ultimately by adding
the
>> files to the source-rpm along with a new Makefile patch and rebuilding
>> the kernel rpms.
>>
>> However, as bnx2x NICs seem quite commonplace these days, I suggest to
>> fix this 'upstream'. If required, I can provide the (trivial)
patch. I
>> pulled the firmware-files from a CentOS 7 stock kernel.
>>
>> Regards
>> Thomas
>
> Thomas,
>
> Please see if this kernel solves your issues:
>
> http://people.centos.org/hughesjr/xen-kernel/x86_64/Packages/
>
> Thanks,
> Johnny Hughes
There was a response, "Nope, those did not work". See:

https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=9030#c23582

Akemi