On Tue, Jul 20, 2021 at 10:28:57AM -0500, Pierre-Louis Bossart wrote: Please fix your mail client to word wrap within paragraphs at something substantially less than 80 columns. Doing this makes your messages much easier to read and reply to. > - we currently don't support 'shipping the topology and firmware > bundled up in a single image to avoid them getting out of sync'. No > idea how that might work. Seems like it'd be trivial to arrange in the kernel, or with userspace firmware loading the loader could do the unpacking. > - if the machine driver is specified in DeviceTree, then the topology > used is *required* to be aligned with the machine driver. The rules > are that a topology may not make references to a BE dailink exposed in > the machine driver, but conversely if the topology makes a reference > to a BE dailink that is not exposed in the machine driver the topology > parsing will fail. It's one of the current weaknesses of > topology-based solutions, we have non-configurable hardware-related > things that are described in topology but should really be described > in platform firmware, be it ACPI or DT, and provided to the topology. That seems like an orthogonal issue here? The requirement for a firmware that's joined up with the hardware (and system description) that it's being used with exists regardless of how we rename things.
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