netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v3 2/2] net: airoha: npu: Add the capability to read firmware names from dts

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Message-ID: <2b716edf-23c6-427d-beb5-16127b8bf429@lunn.ch>
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2026 21:29:16 +0100
From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@...nel.org>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@...n.ch>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>,
	Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk+dt@...nel.org>,
	Conor Dooley <conor+dt@...nel.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-mediatek@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 2/2] net: airoha: npu: Add the capability to
 read firmware names from dts

On Mon, Jan 19, 2026 at 04:32:41PM +0100, Lorenzo Bianconi wrote:
> Introduce the capability to read the firmware binary names from device-tree
> using the firmware-name property if available.
> This patch is needed because NPU firmware binaries are board specific since
> they depend on the MediaTek WiFi chip used on the board (e.g. MT7996 or
> MT7992) and the WiFi chip version info is not available in the NPU driver.
> This is a preliminary patch to enable MT76 NPU offloading if the Airoha SoC
> is equipped with MT7996 (Eagle) WiFi chipset.

I _think_ you need to add the firmware file names to the end of the
file using MODULE_FIRMWARE(). That gives dracul, or whatever is
building in initramfs, the information it needs to include them.

	 Andrew