Re: [PATCH] docs: driver-api: firmware: add driver firmware guidelines.

[Dave Airlie]

On Tue, 19 Jul 2022 at 08:04, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 18 Jul 2022 11:33:11 +0200 Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> > > If the hardware isn't
> > > +  enabled by default or under development,
> >
> > Wondering if it might be better to drop the "or under development", as
> > the "enabled by default" is the main part afaics. Maybe something like
> > "If support for the hardware is normally inactive (e.g. has to be
> > enabled manually by a kernel parameter)" would be better anyway.
>
> It's a tricky one, I'd say something like you can break the FW ABI
> "until HW becomes available for public consumption" or such.
> I'm guessing what we're after is letting people break the compatibility
> in early stages of the product development cycles. Pre-silicon and
> bring up, but not after there are products on the market?

I'll stick with enabled by default I think, "public consumption"
invites efforts to describe corners of the cloud or other places where
hw has shipped but is not technically "public",

Dave.