Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 Sep 2014 13:04:18 -0400 | From | Santosh Shilimkar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] firmware: add Keystone QMSS PDSP accumulator firmware blob |
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On Thursday 25 September 2014 11:15 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 10:13:43AM -0400, Santosh Shilimkar wrote: >> From: Sandeep Nair <sandeep_n@ti.com> >> >> QMSS(Queue Manager Sub System) uses PDSPs to implement various >> QM related functions like packet accumulation, QoS or event >> management. >> >> Patch adds firmware blob for the QMSS accumulator >> functionality. >> >> Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz> >> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> >> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> >> Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@codeaurora.org> >> Cc: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> >> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> >> Signed-off-by: Sandeep Nair <sandeep_n@ti.com> >> Signed-off-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com> >> --- >> I know we are not adding firmware to kernel and the idea is to get them >> loaded via rootfs. But this firmware is for an infrastructure component >> which is needed for Keystone. > > What does "infrastructure component" mean? > Common SOC components which are used by various subsystems like Networking, SRIO, Crypto engines etc.
> What is "Keystone"? > Keystone is ARM based SOC architectures with bunch of SOC peripherals.
>> The respective drivers got into the queue >> and the firmware was dropped from the series to follow the firmware tree. > > Did you submit this to the linux-firmware tree? > ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl didn't give me other list. Which list am suppose to submit it to get it to linux-firmware.
> Did the driver that needs this get merged into Linus's tree yet? > Its queued now for 3.18.
regards, Santosh
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