From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Simon Horman <simon.horman@corigine.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, oss-drivers@corigine.com,
Yu Xiao <yu.xiao@corigine.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] nfp: compose firmware file name with new hwinfo "nffw.partno"
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2022 21:47:17 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220620214717.71537153@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220620103912.46164-1-simon.horman@corigine.com>
On Mon, 20 Jun 2022 12:39:12 +0200 Simon Horman wrote:
> From: Yu Xiao <yu.xiao@corigine.com>
>
> During initialization of the NFP driver, a file name for loading
> application firmware is composed using the NIC's AMDA information and port
> type (count and speed). E.g.: "nic_AMDA0145-1012_2x10.nffw".
>
> In practice there may be many variants for each NIC type, and many of the
> variants relate to assembly components which do not concern the driver and
> application firmware implementation. Yet the current scheme leads to a
> different application firmware file name for each variant, because they
> have different AMDA information.
>
> To reduce proliferation of content-duplicated application firmware images
> or symlinks, the NIC's management firmware will only expose differences
> between variants that need different application firmware via a newly
> introduced hwinfo, "nffw.partno".
>
> Use of the existing hwinfo, "assembly.partno", is maintained in order to
> support for NICs with management firmware that does not expose
> "nffw.partno".
>
> Signed-off-by: Yu Xiao <yu.xiao@corigine.com>
> Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman@corigine.com>
FWIW:
Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-06-21 4:47 UTC|newest]
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2022-06-20 10:39 [PATCH net-next] nfp: compose firmware file name with new hwinfo "nffw.partno" Simon Horman
2022-06-21 4:47 ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2022-06-21 11:00 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
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