bnx2 driver fails to load on Fedora Rawhide

[Narendra_K at Dell.com]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: devel-bounces at lists.fedoraproject.org [mailto:devel-
> bounces at lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of Andy Gospodarek
> Sent: Monday, January 17, 2011 8:35 PM
> To: Development discussions related to Fedora
> Cc: Iyer, Shyam; David.Woodhouse at intel.com; Rose, Charles;
> jlaska at redhat.com; KM, Paniraja
> Subject: Re: bnx2 driver fails to load on Fedora Rawhide
> 
> On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 01:41:41AM -0800, Narendra_K at Dell.com wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > On Fedora Rawhide bnx2 driver failed to load with the following
> messages on PowerEdge R710 with BCM5709 devices.( Bugzilla Bug 670121-
> bnx2 driver fails to load on rawhide).
> >
> > I observed this failure while I was setting up the box for
> biosdevname related experiments.
> >
> > [   12.680616] bnx2: Broadcom NetXtreme II Gigabit Ethernet Driver
> bnx2 v2.0.18 (Oct 7, 2010)
> > [   12.681213] bnx2 0000:01:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 36 (level, low) ->
> IRQ 36
> > [   12.681502] bnx2 0000:01:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
> > [   12.682141] bnx2 0000:01:00.0: pci_enable_pcie_error_reporting
> failed 0xfffffffb
> > [   12.830923] bnx2: Can't load firmware file "bnx2/bnx2-mips-09-
> 6.0.17.fw"
> > [   12.831263] bnx2 0000:01:00.0: PCI INT A disabled
> > [   12.831614] bnx2: probe of 0000:01:00.0 failed with error -2
> > [   12.832099] bnx2 0000:01:00.1: PCI INT B -> GSI 48 (level, low) ->
> IRQ 48
> > [   12.832375] bnx2 0000:01:00.1: setting latency timer to 64
> > [   12.833126] bnx2 0000:01:00.1: pci_enable_pcie_error_reporting
> failed 0xfffffffb
> > [   13.115474] bnx2: Can't load firmware file "bnx2/bnx2-mips-09-
> 6.0.17.fw"
> > [   13.115804] bnx2 0000:01:00.1: PCI INT B disabled
> > [   13.116652] bnx2: probe of 0000:01:00.1 failed with error -2
> >
> >
> > [root at fedora-14-r710 ~]# uname -r
> > 2.6.37-0.rc7.git0.1.fc15.x86_64
> > [root at fedora-14-r710 ~]# modinfo -F version bnx2
> > 2.0.18
> >
> > With regards,
> > Narendra K
> >
> >
> 
> It looks like that firmware is in Linus' tree, but somehow it is not in
> Woodhouse's linux-firmware tree.  That seems odd.
> 
> Copying Woodhouse to see if he has any thoughts.
> 

As a heads up, this issue will have an impact on the upcoming 'Network Device Naming' test day scheduled to be held on 27th of this month. (https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ticket/159).  

With regards,
Narendra K