Missing Myricom 10GigE firmware

[Patrick J. LoPresti]

Binary package hint: linux-firmware

Maverick Meercat includes the myri10ge driver, but it is missing the associated firmware.

Current firmware package is available from the vendor:

http://www.myri.com/scs/download-Myri10GE-firmware-only.html

Without these firmware files, the system logs messages like the following at boot:

[ 5.434041] myri10ge 0000:07:00.0: firmware: requesting myri10ge_eth_z8e.dat
[ 5.434889] myri10ge 0000:07:00.0: Unable to load myri10ge_eth_z8e.dat firmware image via hotplug
[ 5.434894] myri10ge 0000:07:00.0: hotplug firmware loading failed
[ 5.434967] myri10ge 0000:07:00.0: Successfully adopted running firmware
[ 5.434971] myri10ge 0000:07:00.0: Using firmware currently running on NIC. For optimal
[ 5.434975] myri10ge 0000:07:00.0: performance consider loading optimized firmware
[ 5.434978] myri10ge 0000:07:00.0: via hotplug

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: linux-firmware 1.37
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.34-5.13-generic 2.6.34
Uname: Linux 2.6.34-5-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Jun 21 17:06:44 2010
Dependencies:

InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Alpha amd64 (20100602.2)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: linux-firmware

[Patrick J. LoPresti (lopresti)]

Addendum:

Note that the file name requested by the driver is "myri10ge_eth_z8e.dat", while the file name in the vendor package is just "eth_z8e.dat". The vendor package contains four .dat files corresponding to different cards. They are all used by the myri10ge driver, and they all need to have "myri10ge_" prepended to their names when deposited under /lib/firmware.

[Brice Goglin (bgoglin-free)]

To be clear, those 4 .dat files are for the same cards, but under different circumstances (depending on PCIe completions alignment, and multiqueue support being enabled or not).

[Chase Douglas (chasedouglas)]

Please test the attached linux-firmware package.

[Patrick J. LoPresti (lopresti)]

On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Chase Douglas
<email address hidden> wrote:
> Please test the attached linux-firmware package.
>
> ** Attachment added: "linux-firmware_1.38~test1_all.deb"
>   http://launchpadlibrarian.net/51059111/linux-firmware_1.38%7Etest1_all.deb

Unfortunately, this did not work... It installs the firmware files,
but they do not get loaded at boot.

However, if I move the files up one directory level -- "sudo mv
/lib/firmware/myricom/* /lib/firmware" -- then they are found.

Does the driver need to request "myricom/myri10ge_whatever.dat"
instead of "myri10ge_whatever.dat"?

[Patrick J. LoPresti (lopresti)]

WHOOPS! My mistake. I tested the new package on Lucid and it did not work...

But on Maverick, it fixes the problem perfectly. I apologize for the screw-up.

Thank you!

[Julian Wiedmann (jwiedmann)]

Starting with Oneiric, the linux-firmware package contains these files (http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux-firmware.git;a=commit;h=d1cadcf6c2df78f865e0433b3a8ee9a7420a9042). Could you confirm that this works for you?

(if you're not running Oneiric yet, installing the package from https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/oneiric/amd64/linux-firmware/1.60 should do the trick)

[Patrick J. LoPresti (lopresti)]

Unfortunately, I no longer have an Ubuntu system with a Myricom card. (The original system was a prototype for work, since dismantled.) So I will be unable to test this package.

Unless you can find someone else to test, you might want to close this bug.

Thanks!

[Tim Gardner (timg-tpi)]

I think the right firmware files are in the linux-firmware package.

[Jeff Burns (admiraljkb)]

I've verified the fix *is* working in Oneiric 11.10:

Jan 12 17:04:10 obiwan kernel: [ 1.975528] myri10ge: Version 1.5.2-1.459
Jan 12 17:04:10 obiwan kernel: [ 1.979493] myri10ge 0000:08:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
Jan 12 17:04:10 obiwan kernel: [ 1.979553] myri10ge 0000:08:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
Jan 12 17:04:10 obiwan kernel: [ 2.508135] myri10ge 0000:08:00.0: irq 48 for MSI/MSI-X
Jan 12 17:04:10 obiwan kernel: [ 2.508612] myri10ge 0000:08:00.0: MSI IRQ 48, tx bndry 4096, fw myri10ge_eth_z8e.dat, WC Enabled
Jan 12 17:04:19 obiwan NetworkManager[1361]: <info> (eth4): new Ethernet device (driver: 'myri10ge' ifindex: 4)
Jan 12 17:04:19 obiwan kernel: [ 31.396144] myri10ge 0000:08:00.0: irq 49 for MSI/MSI-X

(BTW - I'm thinking we need a "Fix Verified" option to go after "Fix Released") :)

Thanks Patrick for having reported this ages go and Chase for fixing. I just installed a Myricom and didn't have any troubles with this part of it.