Re: [PATCH] net: phy: hisi-festa: Add support for HiSilicon Festa PHYs

From: Yangfl
Date: Fri Mar 17 2023 - 11:30:32 EST


Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@xxxxxxxxx> 于2023年3月17日周五 22:59写道:
>
> On 17.03.2023 15:30, David Yang wrote:
> > HiSilicon Festa PHYs were used on some HiSilicon SoCs. This patch injects
> > firmwares found on vendor kernels.
> >
> What's the status of adding the firmware files to linux-firmware?
> I don't see any related patch in the linux-firmware mailing list archive.
>
> Any info on purpose of firmware? Does the PHY work normally also
> w/o firmware? Or is the firmware required?

I don't know if this patch is feasible; if yes, I will post files to
linux-firmware.

The firmware is optional; vendor kernel source simply said "improve
performance".