Description of problem: aic79xx 1.0.2 in fc6 2.6.18-1.2798 does not load microcode or work with Adaptec AIC-9410W SAS/SATA Host Adapter aic79xx 1.0.2 in fc6 2.6.20-1.2948 does load micorcode and does work with Adaptec AIC-9410W SAS/SATA Host Adapter but only if the system is booted using a different boot disk. There are two problems here. 1) mkinitrd does not put the /lib/firmware files into initrd 2) if the /lib/firmware file (aic94xx-seq.fw) required by aic94xx is put into the initrd image manually, then when aic94xx is loaded by the init nash script, aic94xx can't load the firmware file aic94xx: Failed to load sequencer firmware file aic94xx-seq.fw, error -2 Once the system has loaded, rmmod aic94xx followed by modprobe aic94xx correctly loads aic94xx Looking at aic94xx code, only the firmware name is passed to the request_firmware routine. Think this might be part of firmware_class.c in drivers/base but not able to make much sense of this code. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): fc6 2.6.20-1.2948 How reproducible: boot system that has aic94xx in the initrd image Steps to Reproduce: 1.Find system with Adaptec AIC-9410W SAS/SATA Host Adapter 2.Add SCSI adapter and disk and build system on this disk 3.Run mkinitrd having checked that aic94xx is in modprobe.conf Actual results: aic94xx: Failed to load sequencer firmware file aic94xx-seq.fw, error -2 Expected results: aic94xx: using sequencer V30 scsi 3:0:0:0: Direct-Access FUJITSU MAX3073RC 0104 PQ: 0 ANSI: 3 Additional info: Suggestions on a quick fix would be helpful as I really don't want to use external disks with this system. This bug is was closed as bug 240105
This issue was resolved with "ln -s /firmware $MNTIMAGE/lib/" on line 1423 of mkinitrd. I hope this bug will be resolved soon.
Created attachment 313453 [details] bugfix for /sbin/mkinitrd I attached patch with relative path in symbolic link
This should be fixed in current mkinitrd (not with this patch, but by using /lib/firmware consistently)