From: Murali Karicheri <m-karicheri2@ti.com>
To: <linux-firmware@kernel.org>
Cc: "Kwok, WingMan" <w-kwok2@ti.com>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Using firmware interface to write configuration blob to MMR space
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2015 16:12:37 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55DCCC35.9060305@ti.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55DCB985.10700@ti.com>
On 08/25/2015 02:52 PM, Murali Karicheri wrote:
> All,
>
> One of our SoC integrates a hardware block from a hardware vendor. The
> vendor has provided a configuration blob that is used to customize the
> hardware block for a specific application. This configuration blob is to
> be written to the MMR space to customize the hardware. The vendor is not
> willing to provide details of the registers. So I am wondering if I
> could use the firmware API (request_firmware) to copy the blob to the
> kernel space so that driver could write these values to the MMR space.
> Is this an acceptable way of using the firmware interface? My research
> so far doesn't see the interface used this way and looking for your
> expert opinion.
>
--
Murali Karicheri
Linux Kernel, Keystone
next parent reply other threads:[~2015-08-25 20:12 UTC|newest]
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2015-08-25 20:12 ` Murali Karicheri [this message]
2015-08-25 22:57 ` Using firmware interface to write configuration blob to MMR space Ben Hutchings
2015-08-26 14:31 ` Murali Karicheri
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