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

[Alan Bartlett]

On Wed, 7 Aug 2019 at 21:19, Dave Chiluk via elrepo
<elrepo at lists.elrepo.org> wrote:
>
> 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.

Sorry for the delay in responding, Dave.

As the linux-firmware package is relevant to the kernel package and I
am responsible for the kernel-ml package sets, I have taken ownership
of your request. I have now opened a RFE in the ELRepo Project
bug-tracker [1], copying your above message verbatim.

All being well I should have an updated package released to the
elrepo-testing repository in the next, say, 24 hours. I will mention
here once it is available. If you could then test the package and
report back with your observations that will be appreciated, please. A
positive report will result in the package being promoted from the
elrepo-testing to the elrepo-extras repository.

Alan.

[1] https://elrepo.org/bugs/view.php?id=923