On Fri, May 01, 2020 at 02:20:49AM +0300, Vadym Kochan wrote:
> Add PCI interface driver for Prestera Switch ASICs family devices, which
> provides:
>
> - Firmware loading mechanism
> - Requests & events handling to/from the firmware
> - Access to the firmware on the bus level
>
> The firmware has to be loaded each time device is reset. The driver is
> loading it from:
>
> /lib/firmware/marvell/prestera_fw-v{MAJOR}.{MINOR}.img
>
> The full firmware image version is located within internal header and
> consists of 3 numbers - MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH. Additionally, driver has
> hard-coded minimum supported firmware version which it can work with:
>
> MAJOR - reflects the support on ABI level between driver and loaded
> firmware, this number should be the same for driver and loaded
> firmware.
>
> MINOR - this is the minimum supported version between driver and the
> firmware.
>
> PATCH - indicates only fixes, firmware ABI is not changed.
>
> Firmware image file name contains only MAJOR and MINOR numbers to make
> driver be compatible with any PATCH version.
Hi Vadym
What are the plans for getting the firmware into linux-firmware git
repo?
Andrew
