[Buildroot] [PATCH v1 1/1] package/linux-firmware: add support for nvidia files
Thomas Petazzoni
thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com
Sat Jun 6 15:02:22 UTC 2020
On Fri, 5 Jun 2020 20:48:39 -0700
Christian Stewart <christian at paral.in> wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Christian Stewart <christian at paral.in>
> ---
> package/linux-firmware/Config.in | 5 +++++
> package/linux-firmware/linux-firmware.mk | 5 +++++
> 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/package/linux-firmware/Config.in b/package/linux-firmware/Config.in
> index eba58014b6..2d729716aa 100644
> --- a/package/linux-firmware/Config.in
> +++ b/package/linux-firmware/Config.in
> @@ -29,6 +29,11 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_LINUX_FIRMWARE_I915
> help
> Firmware files for the Intel i915 video cards.
>
> +config BR2_PACKAGE_LINUX_FIRMWARE_NVIDIA
> + bool "Nvidia video card firmware"
> + help
> + Firmware files for the Nvidia video cards.
For most other firmware files, we have more fine grained options. When
I look at the nvidia/ folder, it has firmware for various graphics
cards:
gk20a
gm200
gm204
gm206
gm20b
gp100
gp102
gp104
gp106
gp107
gp108
gp10b
gv100
tegra124
tegra186
tegra194
tegra210
tu102
tu104
tu106
tu10x
Size-wise, it goes like this:
116K ./gm200
96K ./gp107
36K ./gp106
44K ./gm206
120K ./gp100
28K ./gm204
340K ./tu10x
148K ./tegra210
116K ./gp108
128K ./tegra194
164K ./gm20b
68K ./gk20a
368K ./gp102
276K ./gv100
128K ./tu106
128K ./tu104
148K ./tegra186
76K ./gp104
196K ./gp10b
272K ./tu102
152K ./tegra124
3,1M .
So, in practice, on a given platform, you would typically need only
100-200 KB of firmware on the total 3.1 MB.
Best regards,
Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com
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