Hi Andrew,

On Fri, May 01, 2020 at 02:00:15AM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:

On Fri, May 01, 2020 at 02:20:49AM +0300, Vadym Kochan wrote:

quoted

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

Well, what is the procedure ? I was thinking that probably after
conceptual part will be approved and I will send official PATCH series
along with the firmware image to the linux-firmware ?

Regards,
Vadym Kochan