From: "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>,
Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>,
Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>, Michael Walle <michael@walle.cc>,
Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PHY firmware update method
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2022 13:18:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YzrTKwR/bEPJOs1P@shell.armlinux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220930074546.0873af1d@kernel.org>
On Fri, Sep 30, 2022 at 07:45:46AM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> Actually maybe there's something in DMTF, does PLDM have standard image
> format? Adding Jake. Not sure if PHYs would use it tho :S
DMTF? PLDM?
> What's the interface that the PHY FW exposes? Ben H was of the opinion
> that we should just expose the raw mtd devices.. just saying..
Not all PHYs provide raw access to the firmware memory to the host; in
some cases, firmware memory access needs the PHY to be shutdown, and
programs loaded into the PHY to provide a "bridge" to program the
external firmware memory. I'm thinking about 88x3310 here - effectively
there it's write-only access via an intermediate program on the PHY,
and there's things like checksums etc.
So, exposing everything as a MTD sounds like a solution, but not all
PHYs provide such access. IMHO, if we say "everything must provide a
MTD" then we're boxing ourselves into a corner.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-10-03 12:19 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
2022-09-30 14:45 ` Jakub Kicinski
2022-09-30 16:49 ` Keller, Jacob E
2022-10-03 12:18 ` Russell King (Oracle) [this message]
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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