Re: [Xen-devel] [linux-linus test] 16982: regressions - FAIL [and 1 more messages]

[Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>]

On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 05:23:10PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> 
> > test-amd64-amd64-pv           5 xen-boot             fail REGR. vs. 12557
> 
> This seems to be the host not finding its network driver because of
> this:
> 
>   Mar  3 14:21:04.141787 [   29.101851] bnx2: Can't load firmware file 
> "bnx2/bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1b.fw"
>   Mar  3 14:21:04.214205 [   29.112678] bnx2: Can't load firmware file 
> "bnx2/bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1b.fw"
> 
> This problem is coming back to me now: it's because newer kernels need
> newer firmware files, and the test system currently has no way to
> download a newer firmware.  This was discussed here the last time I
> tried these Linux upstream tests and an approach was suggested.  So I
> turned the tests off but I got distracted before I could implement the
> change.
> 
> I'm going to turn the tests off again but this time I will make a
> better note of what needs doing.
> 

I noticed this firmware problem aswell with the CentOS 6.x Xen rpms,
where Linux 3.4 is used as a dom0 kernel.

The problem was actually a wrong firmware filename (?) in the upstream kernel, 
so a simple symlink fixed the problem for me:

cd /lib/firmware/bnx2 && ln -s bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1a.fw bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1b.fw

-- Pasi


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