From: Hemant Kumar <hemantk@codeaurora.org>
To: "Thomas Weißschuh" <linux@weissschuh.net>,
"Manivannan Sadhasivam" <mani@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mhi@lists.linux.dev,
linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org,
Mario Limonciello <Mario.Limonciello@amd.com>,
Richard Hughes <hughsient@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] bus: mhi: core: Load firmware asynchronous
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2021 16:07:29 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <403e93df-5b3c-acb3-2b65-df9a7834a9c5@codeaurora.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211210161645.10925-1-linux@weissschuh.net>
On 12/10/2021 8:16 AM, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:
> This gives userspace the possibility to provide the firehose bootloader
> via the sysfs-firmware-API instead of having to modify the global
> firmware loadpath.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
>
> ---
>
> Please note that this is not tested yet, as I don't have access to a matching
> firmware file.
> This submission is to gather general feedback from the maintainers and then
> Richard will do the actual testing, while I'll do the development.
>
> This patch is should not have any impact beyond moving from request_firmware()
> to request_firmware_nowait() and the involved code reshuffle.
what are we achieving by moving to async ver of the firmware load ? MHI
boot flow can not do anything until BHI load is over. Is the intention
eventually to enable firmware fallback mechanism and manually load the
firmware ?
[..]
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-12-14 0:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-12-10 16:16 [RFC] bus: mhi: core: Load firmware asynchronous Thomas Weißschuh
2021-12-14 0:07 ` Hemant Kumar [this message]
2021-12-14 6:32 ` Thomas Weißschuh
2021-12-14 22:55 ` Hemant Kumar
2021-12-14 23:28 ` Thomas Weißschuh
2021-12-16 10:19 ` Kalle Valo
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