From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
Michael Walle <michael@walle.cc>,
Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>,
Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PHY firmware update method
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2022 14:36:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Yzbi335GQGbGLL4k@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Yzan3ZgAw3ImHfeK@nanopsycho>
> Yeah, I tend to agree here. I believe that phylib should probably find a
> separate way to to the flash.
>
> But perhaps it could be a non-user-facing flash. I mean, what if phylib
> has internal routine to:
> 1) do query phy fw version
> 2) load a fw bin related for this phy (easy phy driver may provide the
> path/name of the file)
> 3) flash if there is a newer version available
That was my first suggestion. One problem is getting the version from
the binary blob firmware. But this seems like a generic problem for
linux-firmware, so maybe somebody has worked on a standardised header
which can be preppended with this meta data?
Andrew
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-09-30 12:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-09-28 11:27 PHY firmware update method Michael Walle
2022-09-28 12:28 ` Andrew Lunn
2022-09-29 7:04 ` Jiri Pirko
2022-09-29 12:28 ` Andrew Lunn
2022-09-29 14:12 ` Jakub Kicinski
2022-09-29 14:53 ` Andrew Lunn
2022-09-30 8:25 ` Jiri Pirko
2022-09-30 12:36 ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2022-09-30 14:45 ` Jakub Kicinski
2022-09-30 16:49 ` Keller, Jacob E
2022-10-03 12:18 ` Russell King (Oracle)
2022-10-03 14:42 ` Jakub Kicinski
2022-10-03 17:53 ` Keller, Jacob E
2022-10-03 18:04 ` Jacob Keller
2023-01-24 17:13 ` Michael Walle
2023-01-24 17:11 ` Michael Walle
2023-01-24 20:42 ` Andrew Lunn
2023-01-31 16:10 ` Michael Walle
2023-01-31 16:29 ` Russell King (Oracle)
2023-01-31 17:48 ` Michael Walle
2023-01-31 18:36 ` Jacob Keller
2023-01-31 18:41 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-01-31 19:56 ` Jacob Keller
2023-01-31 21:07 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-01-24 22:28 ` Jacob Keller
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