[U-Boot] [PATCH v3 06/20] common: Generic firmware loader for file system

[Marek Vasut]

On 10/29/2017 11:57 PM, Lukasz Majewski wrote:
> Hi Marek,
> 
[...]

>>>>> It would be best to have some kind of common code and extensions
>>>>> per soc/architecture.  
>>>>
>>>> I can't see a usecase for that.  
>>>
>>> The use case would be to reuse/tweak this code to be able to load
>>> firmware for the SHARC DSP processors.  
>>
>> I think your driver will use the firmware loader indeed, but this
>> functionality you described would be part of some driver for that
>> hardware, not the FW loader.
> 
> Unfortunately, there is no such "driver" available from the vendor -
> hence I'm poking around to see what can be "reused".
Generic FW loader to load whatever blob + whatever driver to install it
into the HW. You likely need to write the driver part then.

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Best regards,
Marek Vasut