Updating Raspbian on ALL-H3-CC yields warnings: "Possible missing firmware"

Hello, I am attempting to update Raspbian after first boot on ALL-H3-CC board. I flashed the latest arm64 image from the distro server.

After the first boot and initial setup, I ran sudo raspi-config and configured the wifi etc, then rebooted.

After this, I ran sudo apt update -y then sudo apt upgrade -y

Upon running apt upgrade, the output yields the following warnings at the end of the upgrade:

...
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.140) ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-6.1.46-08797-g9c18484153bc
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/bnx2/bnx2-rv2p-09ax-6.0.17.fw for built-in driver bnx2
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/bnx2/bnx2-rv2p-09-6.0.17.fw for built-in driver bnx2
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/bnx2/bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1b.fw for built-in driver bnx2
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/bnx2/bnx2-rv2p-06-6.0.15.fw for built-in driver bnx2
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/bnx2/bnx2-mips-06-6.2.3.fw for built-in driver bnx2
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/bnx2x/bnx2x-e2-7.13.15.0.fw for built-in driver bnx2x
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/bnx2x/bnx2x-e1h-7.13.15.0.fw for built-in driver bnx2x
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/bnx2x/bnx2x-e1-7.13.15.0.fw for built-in driver bnx2x
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/bnx2x/bnx2x-e2-7.13.21.0.fw for built-in driver bnx2x
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/bnx2x/bnx2x-e1h-7.13.21.0.fw for built-in driver bnx2x
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/bnx2x/bnx2x-e1-7.13.21.0.fw for built-in driver bnx2x

Is this an issue to be concerned, or just ignore these errors?

BNX2X appears to be a driver for QLogic 578xx 10gig ethernet adapters? So if this adapter isn’t present on the board not sure why these are being loaded…

Thank you for any info.

These can be safely ignored. The kernel has drivers for certain devices enabled but the matching firmware cannot be found because they are not installed. The firmware is usually for devices found on servers and not SBCs so they just take up disk space. We don’t include them on the images by default.

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