On Fri, Nov 18 2016, 12:07 PM, gre...@linuxfoundation.org wrote: > On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 08:48:36AM +0000, Levy, Amir (Jer) wrote: > > > BTW, it is quite a shame that the Thunderbolt firmware version can't > > > be read from Linux. > > > > > > > This is WIP, once this patch will be upstream, we will be able to > > focus more on aligning Linux with the Thunderbolt features that we have > for windows. > > Why is this patch somehow holding that work back? You aren't just sitting > around waiting for people to review this and not doing anything else, right? > Is there some basic building block in these patches that your firmware > download code is going to rely on? > > confused, > > greg k-h
All the Thunderbolt SW features (including networking and FW update) depend on the communication with FW, which is patch 3/8 in the series. The patch also sets up a generic netlink for user space communication. So yes, the communication with Thunderbolt FW is a basic building block.
