Xilinx/Allegro DVT VCU firmware

Xilinx/Allegro DVT VCU firmware

[Michael Tretter]

Hi Varunkumar,

I am working on a mainline driver [0] for the VCU/video-codec that is
found on the Xilinx ZynqMP. The driver depends on a firmware for the
video codec [1], which is the same firmware that is used by the
downstream VCU driver.

As the license allows to distribute the binary, it should be fine to
include the firmware in the linux-firmware repository and properly
distribute it with Linux. 

As you tagged the latest release of the firmware, maybe you could add
the VCU firmware to the linux-firmware repository and add your
Signed-off-by: to the commit.

I could add the firmware myself, but having this done by someone from
Xilinx would be much better.

Michael

[0] https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-media@vger.kernel.org/msg145294.html
[1] https://github.com/Xilinx/vcu-firmware

Re: Xilinx/Allegro DVT VCU firmware

[Michael Tretter]

Hi Varunkumar,

On Thu, 28 Mar 2019 11:32:45 +0100, Michael Tretter wrote:
> Hi Varunkumar,
> 
> I am working on a mainline driver [0] for the VCU/video-codec that is
> found on the Xilinx ZynqMP. The driver depends on a firmware for the
> video codec [1], which is the same firmware that is used by the
> downstream VCU driver.
> 
> As the license allows to distribute the binary, it should be fine to
> include the firmware in the linux-firmware repository and properly
> distribute it with Linux. 
> 
> As you tagged the latest release of the firmware, maybe you could add
> the VCU firmware to the linux-firmware repository and add your
> Signed-off-by: to the commit.
> 
> I could add the firmware myself, but having this done by someone from
> Xilinx would be much better.

Any suggestion how we can continue with that?

Michael

> 
> Michael
> 
> [0] https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-media@vger.kernel.org/msg145294.html
> [1] https://github.com/Xilinx/vcu-firmware

Re: Xilinx/Allegro DVT VCU firmware

[Uwe Kleine-König]

On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 09:59:11AM +0200, Michael Tretter wrote:
> Hi Varunkumar,
> 
> On Thu, 28 Mar 2019 11:32:45 +0100, Michael Tretter wrote:
> > Hi Varunkumar,
> > 
> > I am working on a mainline driver [0] for the VCU/video-codec that is
> > found on the Xilinx ZynqMP. The driver depends on a firmware for the
> > video codec [1], which is the same firmware that is used by the
> > downstream VCU driver.
> > 
> > As the license allows to distribute the binary, it should be fine to
> > include the firmware in the linux-firmware repository and properly
> > distribute it with Linux. 
> > 
> > As you tagged the latest release of the firmware, maybe you could add
> > the VCU firmware to the linux-firmware repository and add your
> > Signed-off-by: to the commit.
> > 
> > I could add the firmware myself, but having this done by someone from
> > Xilinx would be much better.
> 
> Any suggestion how we can continue with that?

I think even if this comming from Xilinx directly would be great it is
not uncommon that others add blobs to the firmware repository. So I
wouldn't wait here.

Best regards
Uwe

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