Consolidate allocation of firmware buffers. In the process, remove
duplication of a workaround for an old symbol firmware bug, and fix a
bug where we could retry the workaround, even if it already failed to
help.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>