Re: [PATCH] arm64: dts: qcom: sa8540p-ride: correct name of remoteproc_nsp0 firmware
From: Bjorn Andersson
Date: Thu Mar 09 2023 - 16:52:29 EST
On Wed, Mar 08, 2023 at 01:36:52PM +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 08/03/2023 13:06, Brian Masney wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 08, 2023 at 12:02:04PM +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> >> On 08/03/2023 00:23, Brian Masney wrote:
> >>> The cdsp.mbn firmware that's referenced in sa8540p-ride.dts is actually
> >>> named cdsp0.mbn in the deliverables from Qualcomm. Let's go ahead and
> >>> correct the name to match what's in Qualcomm's deliverable.
> >>
> >> I don't think vendor deliverables matter. linux-firmware is here more
> >> important. The file will be cdsp.mbn in the firmware, won't it?
> >
> > cdsp0.mbn and cdsp1.mbn for the sa8540p are not in linux-firmware and I
> > far as I know there's no plan for someone to submit those since QC would
> > need to approve that. I can ask though since the DTS for these two bits
> > has been submitted upstream.
>
> If they are never going to be submitted, vendor is allowed to rename
> them all the time in their "deliverables". Are you going to rename the
> file every time Qualcomm decides to rename them? There is no single
> guarantee the names would be fixed, because vendor is allowed to do
> absolutely anything.
>
cdsp0.mbn and cdsp1.mbn are better names, so let's use this patch to
define that if/when they are pushed to linux-firmware it should follow
this scheme.
> Sorry, but any argument in upstream DTS that "someone downstream does
> something" is deemed to fail in many cases.
>
That is indeed an insufficient argument, in many cases.
Regards,
Bjorn