[PATCH] ARM: dts: imx6sl reuses imx6q sdma firmware
Shawn Guo
shawn.guo at linaro.org
Tue Aug 20 02:25:58 EDT 2013
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 06:28:27PM +0200, Luka Perkov wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 09:53:17PM +0800, Shawn Guo wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 02:35:42PM +0200, Luka Perkov wrote:
> > > On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 05:09:46PM +0800, Shawn Guo wrote:
> > > Also, last patch containing sdma firmware blobs sent to the mailing list
> > > [1] uses "sdma-imx6.bin" name.
> >
> > The patch never got merged. I do not like the name, simply because imx6
> > is not a SoC name.
>
> IMHO "sdma-imx6.bin" is much more descriptive then "sdma-imx6q.bin" in
> this case.
I take it opposite. "sdma-imx6q.bin" tells that the firmware is created
for imx6q and gets reused on imx6sl, while "sdma-imx6.bin" tells nothing
about that compatibility info.
>
> It could have been named "foobar" as far as I am concerned. But because
> it was named "sdma-imx6q.bin" in imx6qdl.dtsi error was made when new
> imx6sl.dtsi was created.
The error is there only because the author of imx6sl.dtsi (me) was not
aware of there is no imx6sl specific sdma firmware.
> Naming it "sdma-imx6.bin" or "sdma-imx6x.bin"
> would help avoiding confusions in the future (despite it's not SoC
> name).
Just for example, if the next imx6 SoC uses a different sdma firmware,
I guess "sdma-imx6.bin" or "sdma-imx6x.bin" would become the source
of confusion.
Shawn
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