Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH v2 17/18] package/qoriq-firmware-inphi: new package

From: Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot <buildroot@buildroot.org>
To: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.com>
Cc: buildroot@buildroot.org, Ioana Ciornei <ciorneiioana@gmail.com>,
	Brandon Maier <Brandon.Maier@collins.com>,
	Vincent Jardin <vjardin@free.fr>, Julien Olivain <ju.o@free.fr>,
	Romain Naour <romain.naour@smile.fr>,
	Akhilesh Nema <nemaakhilesh@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH v2 17/18] package/qoriq-firmware-inphi: new package
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2025 23:39:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250422233938.1aabfc7c@windsurf> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250328180427.3434693-18-olteanv@gmail.com>

Hello Vlad,

On Fri, 28 Mar 2025 20:04:25 +0200
Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.com> wrote:

> The NXP BSPs have custom support for a 25G Ethernet retimer
> (drivers/net/phy/in112525.c in U-Boot) for the LX2160A-RDB board.
> That driver requires a text file to be located at a given offset in the
> same storage device as U-Boot itself. The text file contains a list of
> register addresses and values which are programmed into the retimer.

Yurk.

> All in all, a pretty convoluted mechanism, but the driver is
> non-upstreamable, and to support the board we need this "firmware" file
> deployed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.com>

But despite the uglyness/non-upstream-ness of the thing, it looks good
from a Buildroot packaging point of view, so: applied, thanks!

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, co-owner and CEO, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering and training
https://bootlin.com
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