Firmware flashing on Dell systems

[Tim Gardner]

Mario_Limonciello at Dell.com wrote:
>  Tim,
> 
> In updating the Dell firmware related packages, it was brought to my
> attention that kernel 2.6.24 broke firmware flashing routines on Dell
> machines.  Michael Brown submitted a patch that was accepted for
> 2.6.24.1 for fixing it.
> 
> Can you pull that patch to apply to the Ubuntu kernels since switching
> to 2.6.24.1 will be out of the question?
> 
> Here's the commit info from ChangeLog-2.6.24.1:
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> commit 71591e87172bda0d1bf239dd4c7f9aef57a69c28
> Author: Michael E Brown <Michael_E_Brown at dell.com
> <mailto:Michael_E_Brown at dell.com>>
> Date:   Tue Jan 29 15:35:01 2008 -0600
> 
>     Driver core: Revert "Fix Firmware class name collision"
>    
>     patch 7d640c4a5b36c4733460065db1554da924044511 in mainline.
>    
>     This reverts commit 109f0e93b6b728f03c1eb4af02bc25d71b646c59.
>    
>     The original patch breaks BIOS updates on all Dell machines. The path to
>     the firmware file for the dell_rbu driver changes, which breaks all of
>     the userspace tools which rely on it.
>    
>     Note that this patch re-introduces a problem with i2c name collision
>     that was previously fixed by this patch.
>    
>     Signed-off-by: Michael E Brown <michael_e_brown at dell.com
> <mailto:michael_e_brown at dell.com>>
>     Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at suse.de
> <mailto:gregkh at suse.de>>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Thanks,
> ---
> Mario Limonciello
> * Dell ** ** | ** Linux Engineering *
> Desk : (512) 723-0582
> mario_limonciello at dell.com
> 
> 
> 

You mean this one ?

http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/ubuntu-hardy.git;a=commit;h=aade1295c84f5c9c07012c32de025db24f6996cb

Hardy has been rebased on 2.6.24.2.

rtg
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Tim Gardner tim.gardner at ubuntu.com