Skip to content

GitLab

Switch branch/tag
  1. 29 Aug, 2009 1 commit
  3. 13 Aug, 2009 1 commit
    • Eilon Greenstein's avatar
      bnx2x: Using the new FW · 931b7c1f
      Eilon Greenstein authored 
      

The new FW improves the packets per second rate. It required a lot of change in
the FW which implies many changes in the driver to support it. It is now also
possible for the driver to use a separate MSI-X vector for Rx and Tx - this also
add some to the complicity of this change.

All things said - after this patch, practically all performance matrixes show
improvement.
Though Vladislav Zolotarov is not signed on this patch, he did most of the job
and deserves credit for that.
Signed-off-by: default avatarEilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      931b7c1f
  5. 08 Jul, 2009 1 commit
  7. 04 Jun, 2009 1 commit
  9. 02 May, 2009 1 commit
  11. 27 Apr, 2009 1 commit
    • Vladislav Zolotarov's avatar
      bnx2x: Separated FW from the source. · 0eae2a4d
      Vladislav Zolotarov authored 
      

>From now on FW will be downloaded from the binary file using request_firmware.

There will be different files for every supported chip. Currently 57710 (e1) and
57711 (e1h).

File names have the following format: bnx2x-<chip version>-<FW version>.fw.
ihex versions of current FW files are submitted in the next patch.

Each binary file has a header in the following format:


struct bnx2x_fw_file_section {
	__be32 len;
	__be32 offset;
}

struct bnx2x_fw_file_hdr {
	struct bnx2x_fw_file_section init_ops;
	struct bnx2x_fw_file_section init_ops_offsets;
	struct bnx2x_fw_file_section init_data;
	struct bnx2x_fw_file_section tsem_int_table_data;
	struct bnx2x_fw_file_section tsem_pram_data;
	struct bnx2x_fw_file_section usem_int_table_data;
	struct bnx2x_fw_file_section usem_pram_data;
	struct bnx2x_fw_file_section csem_int_table_data;
	struct bnx2x_fw_file_section csem_pram_data;
	struct bnx2x_fw_file_section xsem_int_table_data;
	struct bnx2x_fw_file_section xsem_pram_data;
	struct bnx2x_fw_file_section fw_version;
}

Each bnx2x_fw_file_section contains the length and the offset of the appropriate
section in the binary file. Values are stored in the big endian format.

Data types of arrays:

init_data            __be32
init_ops_offsets     __be16
XXsem_pram_data         u8
XXsem_int_table_data    u8
init_ops             struct raw_op {
                          u8   op;
			__be24 offset;
                        __be32 data;
		     }
fw_version              u8

>From now boundaries of a specific initialization stage are stored in
init_ops_offsets array instead of being defined by separate macroes. The index 
in init_ops_offsets is calculated by BLOCK_OPS_IDX macro:

#define BLOCK_OPS_IDX(block, stage, end) \
       (2*(((block)*STAGE_IDX_MAX) + (stage)) + (end))

Security:

In addition to sanity check of array boundaries bnx2x will check a FW version.
Additional checks might be added in the future.
Signed-off-by: default avatarVladislav Zolotarov <vladz@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarEilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      0eae2a4d
  13. 21 Apr, 2009 1 commit
  15. 10 Apr, 2009 1 commit
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge git://git.infradead.org/~dwmw2/firmware-2.6 · aeb537e9
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      * git://git.infradead.org/~dwmw2/firmware-2.6:
  qla1280: Fix off-by-some error in firmware loading.
  Add README.AddingFirmware file. Basically telling people not to.
  firmware: Remove newly-added slicoss and sxg firmware images
  firmware/WHENCE: Add missing origin information for Ambassador atmsar11.fw
  ALSA: wavefront - Always use request_firmware()
  Remove fdump tool for av7110 firmware
  firmware: convert av7110 driver to request_firmware()
  Partially revert "V4L/DVB (9533): cx88: Add support for TurboSight TBS8910 DVB-S PCI card"
  Revert "fix modules_install via NFS"

Add-add conflicts in firmware/WHENCE fixed manually
      aeb537e9
  17. 07 Apr, 2009 3 commits
    • David Woodhouse's avatar
      firmware: Remove newly-added slicoss and sxg firmware images · ed7331ed
      David Woodhouse authored 
      

These are available elsewhere (for example in the linux-firmware.git
repository); they have no business being added to the kernel source
tree.

We are only putting stuff in the firmware/ directory of the kernel
source when it's extracted from long-standing drivers which used to
include it directly.

We didn't intend to open the floodgates to including megabytes of new
firmware which was previously being distributed separately.
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
      ed7331ed
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 · bfe8ff32
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6:
  b44: Use kernel DMA addresses for the kernel DMA API
  forcedeth: Fix resume from hibernation regression.
  xfrm: fix fragmentation on inter family tunnels
  ibm_newemac: Fix dangerous struct assumption
  gigaset: documentation update
  gigaset: in file ops, check for device disconnect before anything else
  bas_gigaset: use tasklet_hi_schedule for timing critical tasklets
  net/802/fddi.c: add MODULE_LICENSE
  smsc911x: remove unused #include <linux/version.h>
  axnet_cs: fix phy_id detection for bogus Asix chip.
  bnx2: Use request_firmware()
  b44: Fix sizes passed to b44_sync_dma_desc_for_{device,cpu}()
  socket: use percpu_add() while updating sockets_in_use
  virtio_net: Set the mac config only when VIRITO_NET_F_MAC
  myri_sbus: use request_firmware
  e1000: fix loss of multicast packets
  vxge: should include tcp.h

Conflict in firmware/WHENCE (SCSI vs net firmware)
      bfe8ff32
    • David Woodhouse's avatar
      firmware/WHENCE: Add missing origin information for Ambassador atmsar11.fw · 43e79a44
      David Woodhouse authored 
      

Looks like we forgot to update WHENCE when we converted this driver.
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
      43e79a44
  19. 06 Apr, 2009 3 commits
  21. 04 Apr, 2009 2 commits
  23. 03 Apr, 2009 6 commits
  25. 30 Mar, 2009 3 commits
  27. 13 Mar, 2009 1 commit
  29. 27 Feb, 2009 2 commits
  31. 13 Jan, 2009 1 commit
  33. 08 Jan, 2009 1 commit
  35. 07 Jan, 2009 1 commit
  37. 06 Jan, 2009 1 commit
  39. 05 Jan, 2009 3 commits
  41. 26 Nov, 2008 1 commit
  43. 23 Sep, 2008 1 commit
  45. 14 Jul, 2008 3 commits