[elrepo] PSA: v5.2 requires a newer broadcom firmware for broadcom nics to work

Dave Chiluk dchiluk at indeed.com
Wed Aug 7 16:19:19 EDT 2019


Kernels newer than v5.2-rc1 are now shipping with
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=32705592f94

Without this firmware file, affected broadcom bnx2x network cards will
not be able to initialize and will report an error of
"
bnx2x XXXX:XX:XX.X: Direct firmware load for
bnx2x/bnx2x-e2-7.13.11.0.fw failed with error -2
bnx2x: [bnx2x_init_firmware:13542(em1)]Can't laod firmware file
bnx2x/bnx2x-e2-7.13.11.0.fw
"
This is kind of a big breaking change.

That firmware file can be downloaded and installed into
/lib/firmware/bnx2x/bnx2x-e2-7.13.11.0.fw
from
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/tree/bnx2x/bnx2x-e2-7.13.11.0.fw

My question is, does ELREPO provide updated linux-firmware rpms
anywhere?  Otherwise users are just going to have to download this
independently.


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