Re: [Unattended-Dev] bnx2 driver firmware doesn't load on 4.9

>From my understanding, compiling in the firmware runs into both licensing problems (GPL and non-Free code) and technical problems (because it's not legal, a method has not really been created for this).

But like I said, my problem was the everlasting delay, and once I fixed that my interest waned.

Timothy J. Massey
Out of the Box Solutions Inc.

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On Jul 29, 2011, at 7:17 PM, "Paul Civati" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Timothy J Massey <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > It's not.  Loadable firmware requires udev/hotplug, in my understanding, 
> > and the Unattended boot CD doesn't support udev/hotplug
> 
> Thanks for the explanation.
> 
> > No.  AFAICT, loadable firmware has *never* worked with the Unattended boot 
> > CD.
> > 
> > I asked about this several times in the past with zero feedback. 
> > Fortunately for me, it was mostly cosmetic/delay, and I hacked around it. 
> > If you look in the list archives starting from April or so 2011 you'll see 
> > the bits that I previously posted, including how to reduce the timeout. 
> > But if you *need* the firmware, it's not gonna help.
> 
> Seems like that will cause a a lot of problems as there seem to be
> quite a few drivers now that load firmware.  Is there any way to embed
> them into the driver perhaps?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -Paul-
> 
> 
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