[node-devel] Firmware missing

[Jonas Israelsson]

Greetings,

I have a few Brocade 815 Fibre Channel HBA's that I was planning to use
on my oVirt nodes.
While the kernel module for these HBA's (bfa) is included the firmware
also needed is not.

I added them to one node by just remounting the root-filesystem as
read-write and copied the files to /lib/firmware.
These files does however not survive a reboot. Anyone knows where to
place them in order to make them stay permanently ?

Furthermore, would it be possible to consider adding these as standard ?

There seem to be already existing fedora packages, I used this package
to extract the files before adding them to the node.

http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/fedora/devel/rawhide/x86_64/b/bfa-firmware-3.1.2.1-2.fc19.noarch.html

With kind regards,
Jonas

[Joey Boggs]

Post by Jonas Israelsson
Greetings,
I have a few Brocade 815 Fibre Channel HBA's that I was planning to use
on my oVirt nodes.
While the kernel module for these HBA's (bfa) is included the firmware
also needed is not.
I added them to one node by just remounting the root-filesystem as
read-write and copied the files to /lib/firmware.
These files does however not survive a reboot. Anyone knows where to
place them in order to make them stay permanently ?
Furthermore, would it be possible to consider adding these as standard ?
There seem to be already existing fedora packages, I used this package
to extract the files before adding them to the node.
http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/fedora/devel/rawhide/x86_64/b/bfa-firmware-3.1.2.1-2.fc19.noarch.html
With kind regards,
Jonas
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Looks like its just a blacklisting problem. We install bfa-firmware but
only keep some of the actual files.

As a workaround you can edit common-minimizer.ks and add these lines and
build the iso yourself. I'll be submitting a patch shortly and hopefully
should make the 3.0 beta/release here soon.

keep /lib/firmware/cbfw.bin
keep /lib/firmware/ct2fw.bin
keep /lib/firmware/ctfw.bin

[Jonas Israelsson]

Looks like its just a blacklisting problem. We install bfa-firmware but
only keep some of the actual files.

Post by Joey Boggs
As a workaround you can edit common-minimizer.ks and add these lines
and build the iso yourself. I'll be submitting a patch shortly and
hopefully should make the 3.0 beta/release here soon.
keep /lib/firmware/cbfw.bin
keep /lib/firmware/ct2fw.bin
keep /lib/firmware/ctfw.bin

Did the patch not make it ? I see the same issue woth

[Jonas Israelsson]

Looks like its just a blacklisting problem. We install bfa-firmware but
only keep some of the actual files.

Post by Joey Boggs
As a workaround you can edit common-minimizer.ks and add these lines
and build the iso yourself. I'll be submitting a patch shortly and
hopefully should make the 3.0 beta/release here soon.
keep /lib/firmware/cbfw.bin
keep /lib/firmware/ct2fw.bin
keep /lib/firmware/ctfw.bin

Sorry, my last mail escaped before finished.

What I was going to say the issue is still seen in ovirt-node 3.0.1-1.0.2

Sep 28 09:45:41 localhost kernel: [ 1148.753266] Brocade BFA FC/FCOE
SCSI driver - version: 3.1.2.1
Sep 28 09:45:41 localhost kernel: [ 1148.753331] Can't locate firmware
cbfw-3.1.0.0.bin

Rgds Jonas

[Joey Boggs]

Post by Joey Boggs
Looks like its just a blacklisting problem. We install bfa-firmware
but only keep some of the actual files.

Post by Joey Boggs
As a workaround you can edit common-minimizer.ks and add these lines
and build the iso yourself. I'll be submitting a patch shortly and
hopefully should make the 3.0 beta/release here soon.
keep /lib/firmware/cbfw.bin
keep /lib/firmware/ct2fw.bin
keep /lib/firmware/ctfw.bin

Sorry, my last mail escaped before finished.
What I was going to say the issue is still seen in ovirt-node 3.0.1-1.0.2
Sep 28 09:45:41 localhost kernel: [ 1148.753266] Brocade BFA FC/FCOE
SCSI driver - version: 3.1.2.1
Sep 28 09:45:41 localhost kernel: [ 1148.753331] Can't locate firmware
cbfw-3.1.0.0.bin
Rgds Jonas

Updated the patch to include the other files, must have added more files
during the F19 transition.

http://gerrit.ovirt.org/19657