From: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicin...@netronome.com> Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2017 11:09:45 -0700
> We have been pondering for some time how to support loading different > application firmwares onto NFP. We want to support both users selecting > one of the firmware images provided by Netronome (which are optimized > for different use cases each) as well as firmware images created by > users themselves or other companies. > > In the end we decided to go with the simplest solution - depending on > the right firmware image being placed in /lib/firmware. This vastly > simplifies driver logic and also doesn't require any new API. > > Different NICs on one system may want to run different applications > therefore we first try to load firmware specific to the device (by > serial number of PCI slot) and if not present try the device model > based name we have been using so far. Series applied, thanks Jakub.
