Hi all, Attached please find patch that looks for (requires) new firmware filenames for 3945 and 4965. This is to enhance enforcement of driver/uCode compatibility, and allow simpler coexistence of older/newer drivers and their associated uCode files. It also allows easy upgrades of uCode, without modification of driver, *if* the uCode is compatible (which is likely). FYI, here's the formula for our version numbers: The uCode version numbers consist of the following, which are found in the uCode tarball name, as well as the 1st dword of the firmware file itself, with following bit offsets: INTEL_MAJOR: << 24, internal uCode version number INTEL_MINOR: << 16, internal uCode version number LINUX_MAJOR: << 8, (new) indicates driver compatibility LINUX_MINOR: << 0, incremented each time we (Linux team) change anything I'm sending the uCode files to Yi separately, so as not to burden everybody's mailboxes. Tip of the hat to Jeremy at Red Hat for his help. -- Ben --
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0001-Add-uCode-driver-compatibility-version-number-in-fir.patch
Description: 0001-Add-uCode-driver-compatibility-version-number-in-fir.patch
