[PATCH net-next v3 2/2] net: airoha: npu: Add the capability to read firmware names from dts

Andrew Lunn andrew at lunn.ch
Mon Jan 19 12:29:16 PST 2026


On Mon, Jan 19, 2026 at 04:32:41PM +0100, Lorenzo Bianconi wrote:
> Introduce the capability to read the firmware binary names from device-tree
> using the firmware-name property if available.
> This patch is needed because NPU firmware binaries are board specific since
> they depend on the MediaTek WiFi chip used on the board (e.g. MT7996 or
> MT7992) and the WiFi chip version info is not available in the NPU driver.
> This is a preliminary patch to enable MT76 NPU offloading if the Airoha SoC
> is equipped with MT7996 (Eagle) WiFi chipset.

I _think_ you need to add the firmware file names to the end of the
file using MODULE_FIRMWARE(). That gives dracul, or whatever is
building in initramfs, the information it needs to include them.

	 Andrew



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