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authorJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>2011-07-11 14:15:48 +0200
committerJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>2011-07-11 14:15:55 +0200
commitb7e9c223be8ce335e30f2cf6ba588e6a4092275c (patch)
tree2d1e3b75606abc18df7ad65e51ac3f90cd68b38d /drivers/scsi/isci/firmware/README
parentc172d82500a6cf3c32d1e650722a1055d72ce858 (diff)
parente3bbfa78bab125f58b831b5f7f45b5a305091d72 (diff)
Merge branch 'master' into for-next
Sync with Linus' tree to be able to apply pending patches that are based on newer code already present upstream.
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+This defines the temporary binary blow we are to pass to the SCU
+driver to emulate the binary firmware that we will eventually be
+able to access via NVRAM on the SCU controller.
+
+The current size of the binary blob is expected to be 149 bytes or larger
+
+Header Types:
+0x1: Phy Masks
+0x2: Phy Gens
+0x3: SAS Addrs
+0xff: End of Data
+
+ID string - u8[12]: "#SCU MAGIC#\0"
+Version - u8: 1
+SubVersion - u8: 0
+
+Header Type - u8: 0x1
+Size - u8: 8
+Phy Mask - u32[8]
+
+Header Type - u8: 0x2
+Size - u8: 8
+Phy Gen - u32[8]
+
+Header Type - u8: 0x3
+Size - u8: 8
+Sas Addr - u64[8]
+
+Header Type - u8: 0xf
+
+
+==============================================================================
+
+Place isci_firmware.bin in /lib/firmware
+Be sure to recreate the initramfs image to include the firmware.
+