Re: [PATCH] accel/ivpu: Cache FW API version and simplify API check macros

["Wachowski, Karol" <karol.wachowski@linux.intel.com>]

On 12-Oct-26 12:38, Dawid Osuchowski wrote:
> On 2026-10-12 10:09 AM, Karol Wachowski wrote:
>> Copy the API version array from the firmware image header into
>> struct ivpu_fw_info while the header is being parsed, and use the
>> cached copy afterwards. This way the raw firmware image header is only
>> accessed during image parsing, which is a step towards releasing the
>> firmware image once it has been loaded.
>>
>> Since the API version is now available in vdev->fw before the
>> compatibility checks run, drop the redundant fw_hdr parameter from
>> IVPU_FW_CHECK_API_COMPAT(), IVPU_FW_CHECK_API_VER_LT() and the helpers
>> behind them, as well as from ivpu_fw_sched_mode_select().
>>
>> Also make DRM_IVPU_PARAM_FW_API_VERSION read the cached copy instead of
>> dereferencing the firmware image directly.
>>
>> No functional change.
>>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Dawid Osuchowski <dawid.osuchowski@linux.intel.com>

Thanks, applied to drm-misc-next.

> 
>> Co-developed-by: Andrzej Kacprowski <andrzej.kacprowski@linux.intel.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Andrzej Kacprowski <andrzej.kacprowski@linux.intel.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Karol Wachowski <karol.wachowski@linux.intel.com>
>> ---
>>   drivers/accel/ivpu/ivpu_drv.c |  5 +----
>>   drivers/accel/ivpu/ivpu_fw.c  | 36 +++++++++++++++++------------------
>>   drivers/accel/ivpu/ivpu_fw.h  |  1 +
>>   3 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
>>