[ewg] shipping firmware with ofed

[Steve Wise]

Tziporet Koren wrote:
> Steve Wise wrote:
>> Is there any problem with shipping the required cxgb3 firmware in the 
>> ofed releases?
>>
>>
> No plans for any FW shipment with OFED.
> You can add in the RN the FW location on the web like we do for 
> Mellanox devices
>
> Tziporet

I request that we do add this.  Forcing customers to download firmware 
isn't very user friendly. 

It should be fairly easy to do, yes?  I would take on the work involved 
to add the infrastructure needed...

All that would be needed, I think, is to make a src rpm that allows 
generating an rpm that will install the firmware in /lib/firmware.  Each 
provider could manage their own.  Or we could have a "firmware" src rpm 
that holds all the providers' firmware images...

Thoughts?

Steve.