Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 25 Aug 2015 16:12:37 -0400 | From | Murali Karicheri <> | Subject | Re: Using firmware interface to write configuration blob to MMR space |
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On 08/25/2015 02:52 PM, Murali Karicheri wrote: > All, > > One of our SoC integrates a hardware block from a hardware vendor. The > vendor has provided a configuration blob that is used to customize the > hardware block for a specific application. This configuration blob is to > be written to the MMR space to customize the hardware. The vendor is not > willing to provide details of the registers. So I am wondering if I > could use the firmware API (request_firmware) to copy the blob to the > kernel space so that driver could write these values to the MMR space. > Is this an acceptable way of using the firmware interface? My research > so far doesn't see the interface used this way and looking for your > expert opinion. >
-- Murali Karicheri Linux Kernel, Keystone
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