Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 329511
qla2xxx driver broken on all 2.6.22 kernels
Last modified: 2008-08-02 19:40:35 EDT
Description of problem: qla2xxx fails to load in all recent 2.6.22 kernels. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.6.22.x (any kernel from kernel-2.6.22.1-32.fc6 to kernel-2.6.22.9-61.fc6) How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot a 2.6.22 kernel (any kernel from kernel-2.6.22.1-32.fc6 to kernel-2.6.22.9-61.fc6) Actual results: qla2xxx driver fails to load from syslog: kernel: qla2xxx 0000:22:01.0: Found an ISP2312, irq 37, iobase 0xffffc20004d5c000 kernel: qla2xxx 0000:22:01.0: Configuring PCI space... ls25 kernel: qla2xxx 0000:22:01.0: Configure NVRAM parameters... kernel: qla2xxx 0000:22:01.0: Verifying loaded RISC code... kernel: qla2xxx 0000:22:01.0: Firmware image unavailable. kernel: qla2xxx 0000:22:01.0: Firmware images can be retrieved from: ftp://ftp.qlogic.com/outgoing/linux/firmware/. kernel: qla2xxx 0000:22:01.0: Failed to initialize adapter Expected results: qla2xxx driver loads successfully from syslog: kernel: qla2xxx 0000:22:01.0: Found an ISP2312, irq 37, iobase 0xffffc2000002a000 kernel: qla2xxx 0000:22:01.0: Configuring PCI space... kernel: qla2xxx 0000:22:01.0: Configure NVRAM parameters... kernel: qla2xxx 0000:22:01.0: Verifying loaded RISC code... kernel: qla2xxx 0000:22:01.0: Allocated (412 KB) for firmware dump... kernel: qla2xxx 0000:22:01.0: LIP reset occured (f7f7). kernel: scsi1 : qla2xxx kernel: qla2xxx 0000:22:01.0: LIP occured (f7f7). kernel: qla2xxx 0000:22:01.0: LOOP UP detected (2 Gbps). Additional info: Hardware: x86_64 (Opteron) SunFire V40z lspci output for the Qlogic adapter: 22:01.0 Fibre Channel: QLogic Corp. QLA2312 Fibre Channel Adapter (rev 02) Subsystem: QLogic Corp. Unknown device 0149 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr+ Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 128 (16000ns min), Cache Line Size: 64 bytes Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 37 Region 0: I/O ports at 3000 [size=256] Region 1: Memory at fe400000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] [virtual] Expansion ROM at fc600000 [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- Capabilities: [4c] PCI-X non-bridge device Command: DPERE- ERO- RBC=1024 OST=2 Status: Dev=22:01.0 64bit+ 133MHz+ SCD- USC- DC=simple DMMRBC=4096 DMOST=3 DMCRS=32 RSCEM- 266MHz- 533MHz- Capabilities: [54] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+ Queue=0/3 Enable- Address: 0000000000000000 Data: 0000 Capabilities: [64] #06 [0080]
The problem is also present in Fedora 8 Test 3 with kernel 2.6.23-0.214.rc8.git2.fc8 and 2.6.23-6.fc8 . # dmesg ... qla2xxx 0000:03:01.0: Found an ISP2312, irq 28, iobase 0xffffc20002f46000 qla2xxx 0000:03:01.0: Configuring PCI space... qla2xxx 0000:03:01.0: Configure NVRAM parameters... qla2xxx 0000:03:01.0: Verifying loaded RISC code... qla2xxx 0000:03:01.0: Firmware image unavailable. qla2xxx 0000:03:01.0: Firmware images can be retrieved from: ftp://ftp.qlogic.com/outgoing/linux/firmware/. qla2xxx 0000:03:01.0: Failed to initialize adapter ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:03:01.0 disabled ...
Updated version. Priority should be high, since this is a blocker for updates and F8 install.
qla firmware is now included as a separate package in F8 -- not sure if it's been built for older releases yet.
> qla firmware is now included as a separate package in F8 We have tested this. It works, However... The point of this bug is that the new kernels break functionality in F6 and F7, and that F8 install/upgrade will not see partitions attached to qla, since the kernel must load the driver with the correct firmware in order to see the device. In my particular case, only data partitions are arrached to qla (the system is on a SCSI or SATA local disk), so a post-install of the qla-firmware RPM is feasible. But people with their / parition on a qla device will be blocked from installing (or upgrading to) F8, since anaconda will not see it. For F6/F7 users, the proper way to deal with this is to add package dependencies so that they can upgrade their kernel without losing their device upon reboot. Cheers.
This may to have been a bug in mkinitrd; is it fixed now?
The problem is still there with: mkinitrd-6.0.19-4.fc8 kernel-2.6.23.8-63.fc8 This bug appears to be related to bug 378651 .
Closing this as duplicate to 378651 in that case. Have you had a chance to try the test packages that are located there? *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 378651 ***
According to bug 378651, I have tested with mkinitrd-6.0.19-4.fc8 and kernel-2.6.23.9-85.fc8 (from fedora-updates ) and the firmware still does not load at boot (in initrd) but loads right after. I opened the initrd file and saw the firmwares are located at the riqht place (/lib/firmware). Something else is preventing the firmware to load at boot. Any idea of what it could be? At boot: qla2xxx 0000:03:01.0: Found an ISP2312, irq 28, iobase 0xffffc20001438000 qla2xxx 0000:03:01.0: Configuring PCI space... qla2xxx 0000:03:01.0: Configure NVRAM parameters... qla2xxx 0000:03:01.0: Verifying loaded RISC code... qla2xxx 0000:03:01.0: Firmware image unavailable. qla2xxx 0000:03:01.0: Firmware images can be retrieved from: ftp://ftp.qlogic.com/outgoing/linux/firmware/. qla2xxx 0000:03:01.0: Failed to initialize adapter After boot: $ modprobe qla2xxx $ dmesg ... qla2xxx 0000:03:01.0: Found an ISP2312, irq 28, iobase 0xffffc2000143c000 qla2xxx 0000:03:01.0: Configuring PCI space... qla2xxx 0000:03:01.0: Configure NVRAM parameters... qla2xxx 0000:03:01.0: Verifying loaded RISC code... qla2xxx 0000:03:01.0: Allocated (412 KB) for firmware dump... qla2xxx 0000:03:01.0: LIP reset occured (f7f7). scsi5 : qla2xxx qla2xxx 0000:03:01.0: QLogic Fibre Channel HBA Driver: 8.02.00-k3 QLogic QLA2340-SUN - ISP2312: PCI-X (133 MHz) @ 0000:03:01.0 hdma-, host#=5, fw=3.03.20 IPX ...