linux-kernel - Re: pull request: Linux-firmware: Add cxgb4 firmware config files

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Date:   Wed, 4 Sep 2019 07:15:57 -0400
From:   Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...nel.org>
To:     Vishal Kulkarni <vishal@...lsio.com>
Cc:     "linux-firmware@...nel.org" <linux-firmware@...nel.org>,
        Nirranjan Kirubaharan <nirranjan@...lsio.com>,
        dt <dt@...lsio.com>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: pull request: Linux-firmware: Add cxgb4 firmware config files

On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 8:31 AM Vishal Kulkarni <vishal@...lsio.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Chelsio driver loads firmware configuration file to allow
> firmware to distribute resources before chip bring up. Chelsio NIC
> driver, cxgb4 searches for firmware config file at /lib/firmware/cxgb4/
> directory.
>
> Two predefined configuration files are available - default and
> hashfilter. Default configuration file equally distributes
> resources across all features, such as iSCSI, iWARP, Crypto, etc.
> On the other hand, hashfilter configuration file borrows some
> resources by disabling the iSCSI, iWARP, Crypto, etc. features,
> and redistributes them to increase offloading more number of flows
> to hardware via tc-flower.
>
> Please pull the files to /lib/firmware/cxgb4/config directory
> and create a t6-config.txt symbolic link in /lib/firmware/cxgb4/ to
> /lib/firmware/cxgb4/config/t6-config-default.txt. The same needs
> to be done for t5-config-default.txt and t4-config-default.txt.
>
> The directory structure should look like below.
> # tree /lib/firmware/cxgb4/
> .
> ├── config
> │   ├── t4-config-default.txt
> │   ├── t5-config-default.txt
> │   ├── t5-config-hashfilter.txt
> │   └── t6-config-default.txt
> │   └── t6-config-hashfilter.txt
> ├── t4-config.txt -> config/t4-config-default.txt
> ├── t5-config.txt -> config/t5-config-default.txt
> ├── t6-config.txt -> config/t6-config-default.txt
>
>
> The following changes since commit 7307a29961ad2765ebcad162da699d2497c5c3f8:
>
>   brcm: Add 43455 based AP6255 NVRAM for the Minix Neo Z83-4 Mini PC (2019-08-27 08:04:55 -0400)
>
> are available in the git repository at:
>
>   git://git.chelsio.net/pub/git/linux-firmware.git for-upstream

Pulled and pushed out.

josh

>
> for you to fetch changes up to 2f885ba53dca06eeaf3d31cfa74fa9d30ab1dcc6:
>
>   Chelsio driver loads firmware configuration file to allow firmware to distribute resources before chip bring up. Chelsio NIC driver, cxgb4 searches for firmware config file at /lib/firmware/cxgb4/ directory. (2019-08-29 05:40:00 -0700)
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Vishal Kulkarni (1):
>       Chelsio driver loads firmware configuration file to allow     firmware to distribute resources before chip bring up. Chelsio NIC     driver, cxgb4 searches for firmware config file at /lib/firmware/cxgb4/     directory.
>
>  WHENCE                                 |   8 +
>  cxgb4/configs/t4-config-default.txt    | 562 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  cxgb4/configs/t5-config-default.txt    | 613 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  cxgb4/configs/t5-config-hashfilter.txt | 467 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  cxgb4/configs/t6-config-default.txt    | 599 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  cxgb4/configs/t6-config-hashfilter.txt | 430 +++++++++++++++++++++++
>  cxgb4/t4-config.txt                    |   1 +
>  cxgb4/t5-config.txt                    |   1 +
>  cxgb4/t6-config.txt                    |   1 +
>  9 files changed, 2682 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 cxgb4/configs/t4-config-default.txt
>  create mode 100644 cxgb4/configs/t5-config-default.txt
>  create mode 100644 cxgb4/configs/t5-config-hashfilter.txt
>  create mode 100644 cxgb4/configs/t6-config-default.txt
>  create mode 100644 cxgb4/configs/t6-config-hashfilter.txt
>  create mode 120000 cxgb4/t4-config.txt
>  create mode 120000 cxgb4/t5-config.txt
>  create mode 120000 cxgb4/t6-config.txt