On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 3:06 PM Srikanth Yalavarthi <syalavar...@marvell.com> wrote: > > > > archive. This causes the ML firmware binary to be parsed > > > > incorrectly. > > > > > > + @David Marchand rte_firmware_read() author for his opinions > > > > /lib/firmware/mlip-fw.bin does not seem to be something packaged in > > Fedora, and I found no trace in linux-firmware repo, so I can't reproduce > > your issue. > > > > Please add some debug and give more details about the issue you are facing. > > The "/lib/firmware/mlip-fw.bin" is Marvell's ML firmware binary. This file is > in un-compressed form. > > When DPDK is built without libarchive support, No issues are observed with > using rte_firmware_read to load the firmware file as open and read system > calls are used. > > When libarchive support is enabled, rte_firmware_read tries to parse the > firmware binary as an xz archive. Since the file is not an archive, this step > is failing.
Please debug this part and point at the exact place where it fails. > > Hence, added new ML driver function to read the firmware binary. This is just avoiding the issue without understanding it... -- David Marchand
