Re: [PATCH net-next] net: phy: air_en8811h: use firmware loaded by the bootloader

[Aleksei Sviridkin]

On Sun, Oct 18, 2026 at 09:13:46PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> Is it possible to figure out from the firmware blob what version it
> is?

Not reliably, as far as I can tell. The version the driver prints is
written into DM by the running MCU; the file holds zeros at that
address. In the DSP blob the halves 0x2506 and 0x2302 sit eight bytes
apart, which looks like the code that builds the word, but that is a
guess at an offset in vendor code.

Lucien, Albert, does Airoha guarantee any field in EthMD32.dm.bin or
EthMD32.DSP.bin as the firmware version, at a fixed place that will not
move in later releases? Without such a guarantee I would rather not
compare versions in the driver.

Aleksei