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extra eeprom actually connected, so there is no real alternative other
than downloading the controller firmware

> Actually the FW download and controller starting can be done by Linux kernel
> driver.

Aha! This sounds really interesting. Looking into the code, there is
/dev/mptctl. This can be used for firmware upload/download (ioctl
interface) - Is there a utility to do this, yet?

  Stefan

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