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Message-Id: <20170524.163328.672261790569871029.davem@davemloft.net>
Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 16:33:28 -0400 (EDT)
From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To: jiri@...nulli.us
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, idosch@...lanox.com, yotamg@...lanox.com,
mlxsw@...lanox.com, Yuval.Mintz@...ium.com
Subject: Re: [patch net-next v2 0/8] mlxsw: Support firmware flash
From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
Date: Tue, 23 May 2017 21:56:22 +0200
> From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...lanox.com>
>
> Add support for device firmware flash on mlxsw spectrum. The firmware files
> are expected to be in the Mellanox Firmware Archive version 2 (MFA2)
> format.
>
> The firmware flash is triggered on driver initialization time if the device
> firmware version does not meet the minimum firmware version supported by
> the driver.
>
> Currently, to activate the newly flashed firmware, the user needs to
> reboot his system.
>
> The first patch introduces the mlxfw module, which implements common logic
> needed for the firmware flash process on Mellanox products, such as the
> MFA2 format parsing and the firmware flash state machine logic. As the
> module implements common logic which will be needed by various different
> Mellanox drivers, it defines a set of callbacks needed to interact with the
> specific device.
>
> Patches 1-5 implement the needed mlxfw callbacks in the mlxsw spectrum
> driver.
>
> Patches 6 and 7 add boot-time firmware upgrade on the mlxsw spectrum
> driver.
>
> Patch 8 adds a fix needed for new firmware versions.
Series applied, although I hope you sort out the user interface
soon otherwise most of this is completely dead unused code.
Thanks.
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