[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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