Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 16 Oct 2023 20:39:19 +0200 | From | Andrew Lunn <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH net v2] net: ti: icssg-prueth: Fix r30 CMDs bitmasks |
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> > How many different versions of REL.PRU-ICSS-ETHERNET-SWITCH have been > > released? They don't appear to be part of linux-firmware.git :-( > > > > The firmwares are currently not posted to linux-firmware.git. They are > maintained internally as of now. Different version of firmware is > released for every SDK release (3-4 times a year)
Clearly, mainline works differently. Ideally you do want to get the firmware in linux-firmware.git. The kernel and firmware are then more likely to by upgraded at the same time. However, you should not assume so. Maybe in mainline you can then support the last 4 firmware versions, and issue an error if a version older than that is found.
However, until the firmware is easily available via linux-firmware, you probably should be backwards compatible for a longer period.
Andrew
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