From: Jiri Pirko <j...@resnulli.us> Date: Tue, 23 May 2017 21:56:22 +0200
> From: Jiri Pirko <j...@mellanox.com> > > Add support for device firmware flash on mlxsw spectrum. The firmware files > are expected to be in the Mellanox Firmware Archive version 2 (MFA2) > format. > > The firmware flash is triggered on driver initialization time if the device > firmware version does not meet the minimum firmware version supported by > the driver. > > Currently, to activate the newly flashed firmware, the user needs to > reboot his system. > > The first patch introduces the mlxfw module, which implements common logic > needed for the firmware flash process on Mellanox products, such as the > MFA2 format parsing and the firmware flash state machine logic. As the > module implements common logic which will be needed by various different > Mellanox drivers, it defines a set of callbacks needed to interact with the > specific device. > > Patches 1-5 implement the needed mlxfw callbacks in the mlxsw spectrum > driver. > > Patches 6 and 7 add boot-time firmware upgrade on the mlxsw spectrum > driver. > > Patch 8 adds a fix needed for new firmware versions. Series applied, although I hope you sort out the user interface soon otherwise most of this is completely dead unused code. Thanks.
