laptop-kernel/firmware/WHENCE, branch master

firmware: delete in-kernel firmware

2017-09-14T21:49:41Z

The last firmware change for the in-kernel firmware source code was back in 2013. Everyone has been relying on the out-of-tree linux-firmware package for a long long time. So let's drop it, it's baggage we don't need to keep dragging around (and having to fix random kbuild issues over time...) Cc: Kyle McMartin Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Michal Marek Cc: Masahiro Yamada Acked-by: David Woodhouse Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

WHENCE: use https://linuxtv.org for LinuxTV URLs

2015-12-04T12:35:11Z

While https was always supported on linuxtv.org, only in Dec 3 2015 the website is using valid certificates. As we're planning to drop pure http support on some future, change the http://linuxtv.org references at firmware/WHENCE file to point to https://linuxtv.org instead. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab

Documentation/serial: Delete obsolete driver documentation

2014-04-16T21:20:34Z

These serial drivers were removed in kernel v3.1, so we can drop their documentation files and references to their magic numbers and parameters. There are still references to these old drivers in Documentation/devices.txt but I'm afraid they can't be removed. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Jiri Slaby Cc: Rob Landley Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tokenring: delete all remaining driver support

2012-05-16T00:23:16Z

This represents the mass deletion of the of the tokenring support. It gets rid of: - the net/tr.c which the drivers depended on - the drivers/net component - the Kbuild infrastructure around it - any tokenring related CONFIG_ settings in any defconfigs - the tokenring headers in the include/linux dir - the firmware associated with the tokenring drivers. - any associated token ring documentation. Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker

bnx2x: Update firmware to 6.2.9

2011-04-01T00:03:36Z

To fix bugs when running offloaded FCoE/iSCSI traffic in multiple Class of Service environments. In some scenarios, traffic could stop on certain rings and eventually all traffic would stop. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kravkov Signed-off-by: Michael Chan Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

bnx2: Update firmware and version

2011-03-14T22:00:12Z

Update 5709 mips firmware to 6.2.1a to fix iSCSI performance regression. There was an unnecessary context read in the fast path affecting performance. Update bnx2 to 2.1.6. Signed-off-by: Michael Chan Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

bnx2: Update firmware and version

2010-12-31T19:04:02Z

Update MIPS firmware to 6.2.1, with improved small packet performance in RSS mode, and iSCSI CID allocation bug fix on 5708. Update driver version to 2.0.21. Signed-off-by: Michael Chan Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

bnx2: Update firmware to 6.0.x.

2010-10-11T23:12:00Z

- Improved flow control and simplified interface - Use hardware RSS indirection table instead of the slower firmware- based table - Lower latency interrupt on 5709 Signed-off-by: Michael Chan Reviewed-by: Benjamin Li Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

bnx2x: create folder for bnx2x firmware files

2010-10-06T21:09:25Z

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kravkov Signed-off-by: Eilon Greenstein Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

IB/qib: Use request_firmware() to load SD7220 firmware

2010-07-08T20:27:05Z

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 Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier