[gentoo-user] QLogic QLA2xxx driver kernel 2.6.18+

[gentoo-user] QLogic QLA2xxx driver kernel 2.6.18+

[Ásgeir Halldórsson]

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Hi all,

   Has anyone found a solution to how to load the firmware dirvers on boot in 2.6.18+ kernels.  I read something about you need to put the /lib/firmware files into initrd.  But I dont know how or where to put it in.  My setup is IBM Blade Ceneter with HS20 blades (Intel Xeon cpus) with Qlogic 2412 FC card.  I boot from the san so i need the firmware into the kernel.

ERROR:
QLogic Fibre Channel HBA Driver
GSI 19 sharing vector 0xC1 and IRQ 19
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:05:08.0[A] -> GSI 32 (level, low) -> IRQ 193
qla2xxx 0000:05:08.0: Found an ISP2312, irq 193, iobase
0xffffc20000006000
qla2xxx 0000:05:08.0: Configuring PCI space...
qla2xxx 0000:05:08.0: Configure NVRAM parameters...
qla2xxx 0000:05:08.0: Verifying loaded RISC code...
qla2xxx 0000:05:08.0: Firmware image unavailable.
qla2xxx 0000:05:08.0: Firmware images can be retrieved from:
ftp://ftp.qlogic.com/outgoing/linux/firmware/.
qla2xxx 0000:05:08.0: Failed to initialize adapter
GSI 20 sharing vector 0xC9 and IRQ 20
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:05:08.1[B] -> GSI 33 (level, low) -> IRQ 201
qla2xxx 0000:05:08.1: Found an ISP2312, irq 201, iobase
0xffffc20000006000
qla2xxx 0000:05:08.1: Configuring PCI space...
qla2xxx 0000:05:08.1: Configure NVRAM parameters...
qla2xxx 0000:05:08.1: Verifying loaded RISC code...
qla2xxx 0000:05:08.1: Firmware image unavailable.
qla2xxx 0000:05:08.1: Firmware images can be retrieved from:
ftp://ftp.qlogic.com/outgoing/linux/firmware/.
qla2xxx 0000:05:08.1: Failed to initialize adapter

Kveðja / Regards
    Ásgeir Halldórsson
    E.C. Software


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RE: [gentoo-user] QLogic QLA2xxx driver kernel 2.6.18+

[Ásgeir Halldórsson]

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Hi all,

                Should I ask another mailinglist about this problem?

From: Ásgeir Halldórsson [mailto:asgeir@ec.is]
Sent: 7. febrúar 2007 10:30
To: gentoo-user@gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] QLogic QLA2xxx driver kernel 2.6.18+

Hi all,

   Has anyone found a solution to how to load the firmware dirvers on boot in 2.6.18+ kernels.  I read something about you need to put the /lib/firmware files into initrd.  But I dont know how or where to put it in.  My setup is IBM Blade Ceneter with HS20 blades (Intel Xeon cpus) with Qlogic 2412 FC card.  I boot from the san so i need the firmware into the kernel.

ERROR:
QLogic Fibre Channel HBA Driver
GSI 19 sharing vector 0xC1 and IRQ 19
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:05:08.0[A] -> GSI 32 (level, low) -> IRQ 193
qla2xxx 0000:05:08.0: Found an ISP2312, irq 193, iobase
0xffffc20000006000
qla2xxx 0000:05:08.0: Configuring PCI space...
qla2xxx 0000:05:08.0: Configure NVRAM parameters...
qla2xxx 0000:05:08.0: Verifying loaded RISC code...
qla2xxx 0000:05:08.0: Firmware image unavailable.
qla2xxx 0000:05:08.0: Firmware images can be retrieved from:
ftp://ftp.qlogic.com/outgoing/linux/firmware/.
qla2xxx 0000:05:08.0: Failed to initialize adapter
GSI 20 sharing vector 0xC9 and IRQ 20
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:05:08.1[B] -> GSI 33 (level, low) -> IRQ 201
qla2xxx 0000:05:08.1: Found an ISP2312, irq 201, iobase
0xffffc20000006000
qla2xxx 0000:05:08.1: Configuring PCI space...
qla2xxx 0000:05:08.1: Configure NVRAM parameters...
qla2xxx 0000:05:08.1: Verifying loaded RISC code...
qla2xxx 0000:05:08.1: Firmware image unavailable.
qla2xxx 0000:05:08.1: Firmware images can be retrieved from:
ftp://ftp.qlogic.com/outgoing/linux/firmware/.
qla2xxx 0000:05:08.1: Failed to initialize adapter

Kveðja / Regards
    Ásgeir Halldórsson
    E.C. Software


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Re: [gentoo-user] QLogic QLA2xxx driver kernel 2.6.18+

[Hans-Werner Hilse]

Hi,

On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 17:27:13 +0530
Ásgeir Halldórsson <asgeir@ec.is> wrote:

>    Has anyone found a solution to how to load the firmware dirvers
> on boot in 2.6.18+ kernels.  I read something about you need to put
> the /lib/firmware files into initrd.  But I dont know how or where
> to put it in.  My setup is IBM Blade Ceneter with HS20 blades
> (Intel Xeon cpus) with Qlogic 2412 FC card.  I boot from the san
> so i need the firmware into the kernel.

Do you have a initrd (or initramfs) at the moment (besides the minimal
one that is build automatically by the kernel)? Otherwise configure
your kernel to build an initramfs for you. Create some directory on
your disk, let's say it's /somedir, create /somedir/lib/firmware, put
the firmware into it and configure /somedir as the kernel's
CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE. This way, the driver should be able to access
it. You don't need to configure your boot loader for this, it should
work just like before.

If you don't want to reconfigure your kernel, just create a gzipped
cpio archive of the /somedir populated like described above and
configure your boot loader to hand it over to the kernel as an
"initrd" (boot loader language), which is in fact an "initramfs". The
kernel will overlay it onto the built-in one.

-hwh
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