From 84021c90771b4582883900d19a52cdde1f453802 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ondrej Zary Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 23:24:42 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] wd719x: Add firmware documentation Add documentation and script to obtain required firmware. Signed-off-by: Ondrej Zary Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig --- Documentation/scsi/wd719x.txt | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/scsi/wd719x.txt diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/wd719x.txt b/Documentation/scsi/wd719x.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..0816b0220238 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/scsi/wd719x.txt @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +Driver for Western Digital WD7193, WD7197 and WD7296 SCSI cards +--------------------------------------------------------------- + +The card requires firmware that can be cut out of the Windows NT driver that +can be downloaded from WD at: +http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?groupid=801&sid=27&lang=en + +There is no license anywhere in the file or on the page - so the firmware +probably cannot be added to linux-firmware. + +This script downloads and extracts the firmware, creating wd719x-risc.bin and +d719x-wcs.bin files. Put them in /lib/firmware/. + +#!/bin/sh +wget http://support.wdc.com/download/archive/pciscsi.exe +lha xi pciscsi.exe pci-scsi.exe +lha xi pci-scsi.exe nt/wd7296a.sys +rm pci-scsi.exe +dd if=wd7296a.sys of=wd719x-risc.bin bs=1 skip=5760 count=14336 +dd if=wd7296a.sys of=wd719x-wcs.bin bs=1 skip=20096 count=514 +rm wd7296a.sys