[Intel-wired-lan] [linux-firmware] ice: update package file to 1.3.16.0

Nguyen, Anthony L anthony.l.nguyen at intel.com
Mon Oct 5 16:09:14 UTC 2020


On Tue, 2020-09-22 at 21:09 +0000, Brown, Aaron F wrote:
> > From: Intel-wired-lan <intel-wired-lan-bounces at osuosl.org> On
> > Behalf Of
> > Tony Nguyen
> > Sent: Friday, September 18, 2020 2:50 PM
> > To: intel-wired-lan at lists.osuosl.org
> > Subject: [Intel-wired-lan] [linux-firmware] ice: update package
> > file to 1.3.16.0
> > 
> > Update the package file and WHENCE entry for the ice driver to
> > version
> > 1.3.16.0.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen at intel.com>
> > ---
> >  WHENCE                                        |   4 ++--
> >  .../ddp/{ice-1.3.4.0.pkg => ice-1.3.16.0.pkg} | Bin 577796 ->
> > 659716 bytes
> >  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >  rename intel/ice/ddp/{ice-1.3.4.0.pkg => ice-1.3.16.0.pkg} (52%)
> > 
> > diff --git a/WHENCE b/WHENCE
> > index 0bdb19ca938e..8b92bd39d735 100644
> > --- a/WHENCE
> > +++ b/WHENCE
> > @@ -5062,8 +5062,8 @@ Licence: Redistributable. See
> > LICENSE.amlogic_vdec
> > for details.
> > 
> >  Driver: ice - Intel(R) Ethernet Connection E800 Series
> > 
> > -File: intel/ice/ddp/ice-1.3.4.0.pkg
> > -Link: intel/ice/ddp/ice.pkg -> ice-1.3.4.0.pkg
> > +File: intel/ice/ddp/ice-1.3.16.0.pkg
> > +Link: intel/ice/ddp/ice.pkg -> ice-1.3.16.0.pkg
> 
> I see the link being created in the patch, however I am not seeing it
> in the file structure when I pull the kernel and check the
> firmware/intel/ddp directory.  Everything else seems to work.  The
> ddp package is there and a diff shows me it is the same ice-
> 1.3.16.0.pkg we have been using internally.  A `copy-firmware
> /lib/firmware/` command runs the script and places the new ddp
> package in the correct directory, but no link to the file is
> created.  The /lib/firmware directory still has a link to the old
> firmware and that older firmware still gets loaded unless I go in and
> move the link by hand.
> 
> After moving the link to point to the new ddp package it loads and
> functions as expected.

Hi Aaron,

There was a patch accepted [1] that changes the behavior to ensure the
symlink is updated. If you rebase, you should get patch that properly
updates the symlink.

Thanks,
Tony

[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-
firmware.git/commit/?id=c1bef9e01060f157f95496f0cbd4edb7b68a3dc8



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