[PATCH v3] sdma-imx: Add SDMA firmware for Freescale i.MX SOCs
Shawn Guo
shawn.guo at linaro.org
Mon Jan 21 02:34:01 EST 2013
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 01:13:14PM -0600, Matt Sealey wrote:
> > imx/sdma/sdma-imx25.bin | Bin 0 -> 694 bytes
> > imx/sdma/sdma-imx31.bin | Bin 0 -> 3762 bytes
> > imx/sdma/sdma-imx35.bin | Bin 0 -> 1746 bytes
> > imx/sdma/sdma-imx51.bin | Bin 0 -> 1894 bytes
> > imx/sdma/sdma-imx53.bin | Bin 0 -> 1406 bytes
> > imx/sdma/sdma-imx6q.bin | Bin 0 -> 1838 bytes
>
> Hi Fabio,
>
> You are an absolute star; but I would suggest only that sdma-imx6q.bin
> is misnamed here, since this firmware works on *all* i.MX6 models
> (Quad, Dual, DualLite, Solo, SoloLite) and not just q for Quad.. is
> there any reason why it would have to have this very
> SoC-variant-specific naming convention if we also dropped support for
> naming tapeouts for each chip?
>
SoC-variant-specific naming convention is widely used in device tree
binding for versioning. I would say in this case that all other i.MX6
models' SDMA firmware is completely compatible with imx6q's.
Shawn
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