Re: [RFC next-next v2 2/5] net: marvell: prestera: Add PCI interface support
From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Date: 2020-05-01 00:00:27
On Fri, May 01, 2020 at 02:20:49AM +0300, Vadym Kochan wrote:
Add PCI interface driver for Prestera Switch ASICs family devices, which
provides:
- Firmware loading mechanism
- Requests & events handling to/from the firmware
- Access to the firmware on the bus level
The firmware has to be loaded each time device is reset. The driver is
loading it from:
/lib/firmware/marvell/prestera_fw-v{MAJOR}.{MINOR}.img
The full firmware image version is located within internal header and
consists of 3 numbers - MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH. Additionally, driver has
hard-coded minimum supported firmware version which it can work with:
MAJOR - reflects the support on ABI level between driver and loaded
firmware, this number should be the same for driver and loaded
firmware.
MINOR - this is the minimum supported version between driver and the
firmware.
PATCH - indicates only fixes, firmware ABI is not changed.
Firmware image file name contains only MAJOR and MINOR numbers to make
driver be compatible with any PATCH version.Hi Vadym What are the plans for getting the firmware into linux-firmware git repo? Andrew