Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 4 May 2018 19:58:35 +0000 | From | "Luis R. Rodriguez" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v5 0/6] firmware_loader: cleanups for v4.18 |
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On Fri, May 04, 2018 at 09:17:08PM +0200, Krzysztof Halasa wrote: > "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org> writes: > > > * CONFIG_WANXL --> CONFIG_WANXL_BUILD_FIRMWARE > > * CONFIG_SCSI_AIC79XX --> CONFIG_AIC79XX_BUILD_FIRMWARE > > > > To this day both of these drivers are building driver *firmwares* when > > the option CONFIG_PREVENT_FIRMWARE_BUILD is disabled, and they don't > > even make use of the firmware API at all. > > Don't know for sure about Adaptec, but wanXL firmware fits every > definition of "stable". BTW it's a 1997 or so early PCI card, built > around the PLX PCI9060 bus mastering PCI bridge and Motorola 68360 > (the original QUICC) processor. Maximum bit rate of 2 Mb/s on each sync > serial port.
So we can nuke CONFIG_WANXL_BUILD_FIRMWARE now?
> It's more about delivering the .S source for the firmware, I guess. > Nobody is expected to build it. The fw is about 2.5 KB and is directly > linked with the driver.
:P Future work I guess would be to just use the firmware API and stuff it into linux-firmware?
Luis
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