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authorBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>2010-07-01 16:37:20 -0400
committerRoland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>2010-07-08 16:27:05 -0400
commitecd4b48a163b55d7eb4132617100b90d0d2768ec (patch)
treedd22655125704e755779d6a846b95a0a817509fa /firmware/WHENCE
parente467e104bb7482170b79f516d2025e7cfcaaa733 (diff)
IB/qib: Use request_firmware() to load SD7220 firmware
Extract the microcode for the QLogic QLE7220 series IB HCA and use the kernel microcode request facility to load the microcode. This supports Debian Linux's requirements to separate microcode which doesn't have open source code available from the device driver. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
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858Found in hex form in kernel source. 858Found in hex form in kernel source.
859 859
860-------------------------------------------------------------------------- 860--------------------------------------------------------------------------
861
862Driver: ib_qib - QLogic Infiniband
863
864File: qlogic/sd7220.fw
865
866Licence:
867
868 * Copyright (c) 2007, 2008 QLogic Corporation. All rights reserved.
869 *
870 * This software is available to you under a choice of one of two
871 * licenses. You may choose to be licensed under the terms of the GNU
872 * General Public License (GPL) Version 2, available from the file
873 * COPYING in the main directory of this source tree, or the
874 * OpenIB.org BSD license below:
875 *
876 * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or
877 * without modification, are permitted provided that the following
878 * conditions are met:
879 *
880 * - Redistributions of source code must retain the above
881 * copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following
882 * disclaimer.
883 *
884 * - Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above
885 * copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following
886 * disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials
887 * provided with the distribution.
888 *
889 * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
890 * EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
891 * MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
892 * NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS
893 * BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN
894 * ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN
895 * CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
896 * SOFTWARE.
897
898Found in hex form in kernel source.
899
900--------------------------------------------------------------------------