Re: [PATCH] bnx2: update bnx2-mips-09 firmware tobnx2-mips-09-6.2.1b

[Michael Chan]

On Fri, 2012-07-13 at 15:09 +0100, Chris Webb wrote: 
> Is there a more automatic method than going through the source for each
> configured driver and setting CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE manually to list the
> relevant firmwares? Is there any way to give the kernel the location of
> linux-firmware and have it compile in everything needed for the selected
> drivers, as used to happen with the firmware/ subdirectory?
> CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR doesn't seem to do anything with
> CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE empty, so I don't think it does what I'm hoping?
> 

Most users will just download the linux-firmware tree:

//git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git

and copy all the firmware files to /lib/firmware.


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