From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.6 required=3.0 tests=DKIM_INVALID,DKIM_SIGNED, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8579C4724C for ; Fri, 1 May 2020 00:00:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 949F420873 for ; Fri, 1 May 2020 00:00:27 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dkim=fail reason="signature verification failed" (1024-bit key) header.d=lunn.ch header.i=@lunn.ch header.b="FkWvLGpy" Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1727787AbgEAAA0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Apr 2020 20:00:26 -0400 Received: from vps0.lunn.ch ([185.16.172.187]:35364 "EHLO vps0.lunn.ch" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726384AbgEAAA0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Apr 2020 20:00:26 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=lunn.ch; s=20171124; h=In-Reply-To:Content-Type:MIME-Version:References:Message-ID: Subject:Cc:To:From:Date:Sender:Reply-To:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-ID: Content-Description:Resent-Date:Resent-From:Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc :Resent-Message-ID:List-Id:List-Help:List-Unsubscribe:List-Subscribe: List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=fu2VrGCUfvlkwTD2Wvwn6pD0dqyCACDQkJu5D58VsZc=; b=FkWvLGpytykAvSq4ItTFBn944z Yr4jsMXNm/sWvfMWckzuddHNYKGtVEyCyYjIQcXTJ+dopdsf1Ul15G+VGGfohgC/xkSDdTRgfniLo odC9E2JaXUQrFihBqEehhWaLvBt3phPdlhrBaCq4fuxzP4omjt1HO/vfs8fx0PAkoi5I=; Received: from andrew by vps0.lunn.ch with local (Exim 4.93) (envelope-from ) id 1jUJ6F-000U5v-Da; Fri, 01 May 2020 02:00:15 +0200 Date: Fri, 1 May 2020 02:00:15 +0200 From: Andrew Lunn To: Vadym Kochan Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" , Oleksandr Mazur , Serhiy Boiko , Serhiy Pshyk , Volodymyr Mytnyk , Taras Chornyi , Andrii Savka , Jiri Pirko , Ido Schimmel , Chris Packham Subject: Re: [RFC next-next v2 2/5] net: marvell: prestera: Add PCI interface support Message-ID: <20200501000015.GC22077@lunn.ch> References: <20200430232052.9016-1-vadym.kochan@plvision.eu> <20200430232052.9016-3-vadym.kochan@plvision.eu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20200430232052.9016-3-vadym.kochan@plvision.eu> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org 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