Q on PCI Firmware update version a17

[Michael E Brown]

On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 10:28:49AM -0400, Jeff Potter wrote:
> 
> Hi List,
> 
> I see there's a new firmware update out for our 1850's -- "PCI  
> Firmware update version a17" -- where can I find release notes on  
> this update to find out how urgently we should apply it?
> 
> Runnging:
> 	rpm -qi  
> pci_firmware_ven_0x1028_dev_0x0013_subven_0x1028_subdev_0x016c_for_syste 
> m_ven_0x1028_dev_0x016c
> doesn't say very much; and searching Google and the Dell site, I'm  
> unable to find anything that looks like PCI firmware.

Sorry for the late response. This is one of the next areas that I am
looking at improving for firmware-tools. Right now, I simply extract the
support.dell.com downloads and convert them into this new format. My
conversion tools right now are lossy. That is, they convert the
firmware, but they lose the readme and other informative explanatory
text.

I'll be adding this soon. Right now, I'm focused on getting the
perc5/sas5 updates out there, and then I'd like to work on some of the
backplane and other updates, like BMC, which several people have been
asking for. This falls a little bit below those two items in my priority
list.

If anybody would like to help with this by submitting patches, I would
gladly accept them, or point out the areas that need to be worked on.
--
Michael