Eilon Greenstein [Thu, 13 Aug 2009 05:53:28 +0000 (22:53 -0700)]
bnx2x: Using the new FW
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: Eilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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.
>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:
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: Vladislav Zolotarov <vladz@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: Eilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
David Woodhouse [Tue, 7 Apr 2009 00:24:16 +0000 (17:24 -0700)]
firmware: Remove newly-added slicoss and sxg firmware images
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: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
* 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)
Firmware blob is little endian looks like this...
unsigned char Version1
unsigned char Version2
unsigned char Version3
unsigned char Padding
unsigned short start_address
unsigned short data
Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
firmware: convert tg3 driver to request_firmware()
Firmware blob looks like this...
u8 firmware_major
u8 firmware_minor
u8 firmware_fix
u8 pad
__be32 start_address
__be32 length (total, including BSS sections to be zeroed)
data... (in __be32 words, which is native for the firmware)
Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Jaswinder Singh [Mon, 5 Jan 2009 00:09:40 +0000 (16:09 -0800)]
firmware: convert acenic driver to request_firmware()
We store the firmware in its native big-endian form now, so the loop in
ace_copy() is modified to use be32_to_cpup() when writing it out.
We can forget the BSS,SBSS sections of the firmware, since we were
clearing all the device's RAM anyway. And the text,rodata,data sections
can all be loaded as a single chunk since they're contiguous (give or
take a few dozen bytes in between).
Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh <jaswinder@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Acked-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Firmware blob looks like this...
__le16 load_address
unsigned char data[]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: include vmalloc.h] Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh <jaswinder@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Jaswinder Singh [Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:20:40 +0000 (19:50 +0530)]
vicam: use request_firmware()
Although it wasn't actually using ihex records before, we use the Intel
HEX record format for this firmware -- because that gives us a simple
way to split it into separate chunks internally as we need, without
loading each part as a separate file.
Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh <jaswinder@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
David Woodhouse [Thu, 5 Jun 2008 11:59:51 +0000 (12:59 +0100)]
firmware: convert Ambassador ATM driver to request_firmware()
Since it had various regions to be loaded to separate addresses, and it
wanted to do them in fairly small chunks anyway, switch it to use the
new ihex code. Encode the start address in the first record.
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Acked-by: Chas Williams <chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
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