On Wed, May 15, 2024 at 10:59:39AM +0200, Wolfram Sang wrote: > > > > This is because that Renesas is not able to distribute the firmware freely. > > > > > > > Seriously? Are you saying that the user has to sign NDA to get this firmware? > > No, the user has to buy the SoC and will get the firmware with the > documentation. Renesas is not allowed to distribute the firmware to > non-users of the SoC. So, linux-firmware cannot be used, sadly. We all > wish it would be different. If Renesas could bother to spend the effort to be legally allowed to include the firmware in linux-firmware, do we want to spend the effort to maintain the support for this PCIe controller in mainline? Is there even an example of a device driver that *requires* firmware that is not in linux-firmware? (I know of some device drivers that does not have firmware in linux-firmware, but in that case the firmware is *optional*, so the device driver still works even without loading an updated firmware. For this patch series, the driver seems to error out if request_firmware fails.) Kind regards, Niklas
