Hi, On Thu, 20 Oct 2022 at 19:52, Nathan Hebert <nhebert@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 10:09 AM Vikash Garodia > <vgarodia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Hi Rob, > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Rob Clark <robdclark@xxxxxxxxx> > > > Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2022 9:32 PM > > > To: Nathan Hebert <nhebert@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > Cc: linux-firmware@xxxxxxxxxx; linux-arm-msm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Vikash > > > Garodia (QUIC) <quic_vgarodia@xxxxxxxxxxx>; Fritz Koenig > > > <frkoenig@xxxxxxxxxxxx>; Bjorn Andersson <andersson@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > Subject: Re: [PULL]: qcom: SC7180 and SC7280 venus firmware updates > > > > > > WARNING: This email originated from outside of Qualcomm. Please be wary of > > > any links or attachments, and do not enable macros. > > > > > > Actually, isn't the .mbn the joined fw? If so all you need to do is remove the > > > other files? > > .mbn is the complete firmware image. We have migrated to .mbn for sc7280, while the > > Initial days of sc7280 was with .mdt binaries (split ones). So to support the boards which > > Have not upgraded the driver, we are retaining all binaries. > > > > Thanks for the feedback (on and off-list). I will push a V2 of the pull request > with the following changes: > > 1. Update both split and non-split binaries for venus-5.4 (SC7180). Also, > update the version in WHENCE. We can remove the legacy split images in a later > commit if it is feasible to do so. The mdt loader doesn't care about the file extension, the mdt loader will determine the type of the file based on the file contents. Thus I'd suggest adding only mbn files and adding a compat symlinks pointing from venus.mdt to venus.mbn > 2. Remove the split firmware images for vpu-2.0 (SC7280). There is no released > device that uses the older firmware loader. I have tested to make sure the > non-split image can be loaded and that the venus media functions work on a > SC7280 device using a ChromeOS kernel based on 5.15. > 3. Update the VPU-2.0 non-split binaries to the latest version and update the > version in the WHENCE file. -- With best wishes Dmitry
