Re: isp support for QLogic 2722/firmware?

Joerg Pulz wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Jul 2023, Brian McGovern wrote:
> 
>> >> I'm curious if anyone has this working, and if so, any chance I can
>>>> obtain the firmware or process you are using? I'm hoping its something
>>>> like flashing an image to the card with some other OS first. TIA
>>
>>> Support for this (and some other newer HBAs) was added recently to
>>> 14-CURRENT, see latest commits in
>>> https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/log/sys/dev/isp
>> <https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/log/sys/dev/isp>.
>>
>> Its getting late locally, so take this with a grain of salt... I'm pretty
>> sure I grabbed the main branch from git, and effectively did a MFC
>> (working
>> with 13.2-RELEASE). Looking at the diffs you pointed me to vs. whats
>> on the
>> disk, it looks like I have the latest bits, but I'll check it again
>> tomorrow to be sure. Its possible I'm missing something.
>>
>> The problem is consistent. When the adapters try to come up, and I'm
>> using
>> them as kernel modules right now just so I can cycle through testing
>> faster, I continue to get
>>
>> "isp_2700 could not load firmware image, error 2"
>>
>> if I don't hack up the ispfw driver/module to have something that
>> meets the
>> name requirements for "isp_2700" firmware.
>>
>> and if I try to create a firmware module it can install with the
>> bk014519.bin firmware file, it'll happily find something for firmware,
>> but
>> then throws a:
>> isp0: Mailbox Command (0xb) Timeout (100000us) (isp_reset:373)
>> isp0: Mailbox Command 'LOAD RISC RAM' failed (TIMEOUT)
>> isp0: F/W download failed
>> isp0: isp_reinit: cannot reset card
>> device_attach: isp0 attach returned 6
>>
>> So, what I think is missing is either a.) finding a good firmware image
>> that I can load via the driver, or b.) figuring out how to flash firmware
>> to the adapter via some other means, and figure out how to skip the load
>> step when the driver starts. Hence why I'm hoping to find someone who has
>> the card working, so I can clone their process.
>>
>> But, if anyone has other ideas, I'm all ears.
>>
>>     -Brian
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 26, 2023 at 8:55?PM Yuri <yuri@aetern.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Brian McGovern wrote:
>>>> Quick question about the isp and card support. I have an HPE branded
>>>> Qlogic ISP 2722 that I'm trying to bring online. Following the various
>>>> tutorials I loaded ispfw, then the isp driver. I got an error message
>>>> "isp_2700 could not load firmware image, error 2". The boards don't
>>>> come
>>>> online.
>>>>
>>>> Looking at the man page, it appears supported on the Qlogic
>>>> 2740/2742/2764 (aka 2722/2714) line, so I tried to chase down some
>>>> firmware and duplicate the isp_2400 and isp_2500 functionality with the
>>>> .bin file. Now, it tries to load but I get a firmware loading failure.
>>>> I'm assuming that either current versions and .bin files are
>>>> incompatible with the other loading processes, or I just screwed
>>>> something up in all the translation (I found a bk014519.bin file).
>>>>
>>>> I'm curious if anyone has this working, and if so, any chance I can
>>>> obtain the firmware or process you are using? I'm hoping its something
>>>> like flashing an image to the card with some other OS first. TIA
>>>
>>> Support for this (and some other newer HBAs) was added recently to
>>> 14-CURRENT, see latest commits in
>>> https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/log/sys/dev/isp.
> 
> Those HBAs are supported since 2018-02-28.
> So support for them is in 13.2 - I have systems running with those:
> 
> # uname -r
> 13.2-RELEASE
> 
> # dmesg -a |grep isp
> isp0: <Qlogic ISP 2722 PCI FC Adapter> mem
> 0x93302000-0x93302fff,0x93300000-0x93301fff,0x93200000-0x932fffff at
> device 0.0 on pci1

Yeah, I read the commit message wrong (2722 instead of 2772), sorry for
the noise.