[Buildroot] [PATCH] package/linux-firmware: remove imx sdma firmware
Yann E. MORIN
yann.morin.1998 at free.fr
Sun Jan 17 14:22:56 UTC 2021
Romain, All,
On 2021-01-17 14:31 +0100, Romain Naour spake thusly:
> As reported on the mailing list [1], the imx sdma firmwares for
> imx[6,7,8] are provided by two packages: firmware-imx and
> linux-firmware
>
> $ sha256sum ./firmware-imx-8.10/firmware/sdma/sdma-imx6q.bin
> 7790c161b7e013a9dbcbffb17cc5d4cb63d952949a505647e4679f02d04c4784
> ./firmware-imx-8.10/firmware/sdma/sdma-imx6q.bin
>
> $ sha256sum ./linux-firmware-20201022/imx/sdma/sdma-imx6q.bin
> 7790c161b7e013a9dbcbffb17cc5d4cb63d952949a505647e4679f02d04c4784
> ./linux-firmware-20201022/imx/sdma/sdma-imx6q.bin
>
> Keep firmware-imx as the only imx sdma firmware provider.
>
> [1] http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2021-January/300938.html
>
> Signed-off-by: Romain Naour <romain.naour at gmail.com>
> Cc: Fabio Estevam <festevam at gmail.com>
> Cc: Stephane Viau <stephane.viau at oss.nxp.com>
> Cc: Gary Bisson <gary.bisson at boundarydevices.com>
At first, I was going to suggest that we should insteaddrop the separate
firmware-imx package, and keep just linux-firmware.
But as explained in the thread you pointed in the commit log (👍),
firmware-imx also has firmwares for older CPUs, so I've added that as a
justification why we keep it and not the option from linux-firmware.
Applied to master, thanks.
Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.
> ---
> Config.in.legacy | 8 ++++++++
> package/linux-firmware/Config.in | 9 ---------
> package/linux-firmware/linux-firmware.mk | 6 ------
> 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Config.in.legacy b/Config.in.legacy
> index 3c022d21d7..a322d18cb3 100644
> --- a/Config.in.legacy
> +++ b/Config.in.legacy
> @@ -146,6 +146,14 @@ endif
>
> comment "Legacy options removed in 2021.02"
>
> +config BR2_PACKAGE_LINUX_FIRMWARE_IMX_SDMA
> + bool "imx sdma firmware is provided by firmware-imx"
> + select BR2_LEGACY
> + select BR2_PACKAGE_FIRMWARE_IMX
> + help
> + linux-firmware provide the same firmware as firmware-imx.
> + We prefer using firmware-imx as the only provider.
> +
> config BR2_GDB_VERSION_8_2
> bool "gdb 8.2.x has been removed"
> select BR2_LEGACY
> diff --git a/package/linux-firmware/Config.in b/package/linux-firmware/Config.in
> index 8e71c21251..a41310ff2a 100644
> --- a/package/linux-firmware/Config.in
> +++ b/package/linux-firmware/Config.in
> @@ -459,15 +459,6 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_LINUX_FIRMWARE_XCx000
>
> endmenu
>
> -menu "SoC Firmware"
> -
> -config BR2_PACKAGE_LINUX_FIRMWARE_IMX_SDMA
> - bool "Freescale i.MX SDMA"
> - help
> - Firmware files for i.MX SDMA.
> -
> -endmenu
> -
> menu "Fibre Channel Adapter Firmware"
>
> config BR2_PACKAGE_LINUX_FIRMWARE_QLOGIC_2XXX
> diff --git a/package/linux-firmware/linux-firmware.mk b/package/linux-firmware/linux-firmware.mk
> index 22fac9d7aa..f23da171c6 100644
> --- a/package/linux-firmware/linux-firmware.mk
> +++ b/package/linux-firmware/linux-firmware.mk
> @@ -64,12 +64,6 @@ LINUX_FIRMWARE_FILES += qca/rampatch_usb_00000302.bin qca/nvm_usb_00000302.bin
> LINUX_FIRMWARE_ALL_LICENSE_FILES += LICENSE.qcom
> endif
>
> -# Freescale i.MX SDMA
> -ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_LINUX_FIRMWARE_IMX_SDMA),y)
> -LINUX_FIRMWARE_FILES += imx/sdma/sdma-imx6q.bin imx/sdma/sdma-imx7d.bin
> -LINUX_FIRMWARE_ALL_LICENSE_FILES += LICENSE.sdma_firmware
> -endif
> -
> # rt2501/rt61
> ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_LINUX_FIRMWARE_RALINK_RT61),y)
> LINUX_FIRMWARE_FILES += rt2561.bin rt2561s.bin rt2661.bin
> --
> 2.25.4
>
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