[Starlingx-discuss] bnx2x driver panic. Is source same as CentOS 7?

[Pratik M.]

Hi,
Thank you Don and Saul for looking into this.

Seems
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/8/BaseOS/x86_64/os/Packages/linux-firmware-20191202-97.gite8a0f4c9.el8.noarch.rpm
is the rpm to use. Rather than
the linux-firmware-20190429-72.gitddde598.el7.noarch.rpm, used currently.

I will try to submit a diff, but not sure if I understood the
update-pxe-network-installer script entirely.

BR
Pratik

On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 3:49 AM Saul Wold <sgw at linux.intel.com> wrote:

> Don: Thanks!  I had a similar email queued up!
>
> Pratik: I have added some additional information.
>
> On 8/17/20 2:42 PM, Penney, Don wrote:
> > Firmware isn’t my area, but we don’t have bnx2x-bnxZ2x-e2-7.13.11.0.fw
> > in our load at all. We are currently including
> > linux-firmware-20190429-72.gitddde598.el7.noarch.rpm in our system:
> >
> >
> https://opendev.org/starlingx/tools/src/commit/e390e85bd5f079d827bfabb69208cd12ec4de02e/centos-mirror-tools/config/centos/flock/rpms_centos.lst#L536
> >
> > The closest it has to what you’re looking for is:
> >
> > /usr/lib/firmware/bnx2x/bnx2x-e1-7.13.11.0.fw
> >
> > /usr/lib/firmware/bnx2x/bnx2x-e1h-7.13.11.0.fw
> >
> > /usr/lib/firmware/bnx2x/bnx2x-e2-7.13.11.0.fw
> >
> I think that the e2-7.13.11.0 will work.
>
> > I see nothing with bnxZ2x.
> >
> > We don’t currently update the initrd or squashfs (installer rootfs) with
> > the linux-firmware RPM, so we just have what’s in the stock installer
> > images. The initrd only has a handful of firmware images, while the
> > squashfs.img appears to have a slightly older version of the
> > linux-firmware RPM content (missing the 7.13.11.0 images listed above).
> >
> Yeah, I was looking into this also, there is the 7.13.1.0 firmware
>
> > If the firmware you need is in a newer version of the linux-firmware
> > RPM, we’d need to update the rpms_centos.lst file to move to the newer
> > version, and also update the update-pxe-network-installer utility to
> > update the linux-firmware RPM content in the initrd.img and squashfs.img
> > images:
> >
> >
> https://opendev.org/starlingx/root/src/branch/master/build-tools/update-pxe-network-installer
> >
> A quick starting point might be to try adding the newer firmware load
> into the /pxeboot/rel-20.06/installer-intel-x86-64-initrd_1.0 image on
> Controller-0. If I remember your trying to use this for Controller-1.
>
> We would welcome a general change that could add specified
> modules/firmware to the initrd.img based on what Don suggested above.
>
> Sau!
>
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Don.
> >
> > *From:* Pratik M. <pvmpublic at gmail.com>
> > *Sent:* Monday, August 17, 2020 6:44 AM
> > *To:* Saul Wold <sgw at linux.intel.com>
> > *Cc:* starlingx-discuss at lists.starlingx.io
> > *Subject:* Re: [Starlingx-discuss] bnx2x driver panic. Is source same as
> > CentOS 7?
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Aug 7, 2020 at 3:46 PM Pratik M. <pvmpublic at gmail.com
> > <mailto:pvmpublic at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >  >
> >  > On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 8:56 PM Saul Wold <sgw at linux.intel.com
> > <mailto:sgw at linux.intel.com>> wrote:
> >  > [...]
> >
> >  > > Can you try installing from the master ISO to see if the 4.18 kernel
> >  > > addresses these panics?
> >  >
> >  > Sure, I will try and update.
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > As an update, I tried using R4.0, but that didn't work. Is it because
> > the initrd does not have the necessary firmware?
> >
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/starlingx/+bug/1891876
> >
> > Thanks
> >
>
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