Re: [RFC PATCH 0/1] Proposal for in-band firmware update over PLDM-MCTP

Jeremy Kerr
2026-05-05T02:15:41Z

Hi Badal,

Thanks for sending this RFC through! It's good to have some early input
on the structure here.

> Problem statement:

This is exceptionally verbose for "we would like to add a MCTP transport
driver". :)

> Option 1: MCTP Transport as Part of drivers/gpu/drm/xe Subsystem

This sounds like the best approach to me. The MCTP transport drivers in
drivers/net/mctp are intended to be fairly hardware-agnostic, and all
are spec compliant. I see no issue with having your own code do a
mctp_register_netdev() from elsewhere in the tree.

I'll also reply on 1/1 with some implementation comments.

> Note: This RFC is prepared with AI assistance (e.g. GitHub Copilot etc).

Then please ensure you have read
Documentation/process/coding-assistants.rst, as you are missing the
Attribution requirements from that.

Cheers,

Jeremy