On 1/15/2024 2:54 AM, Chaoyong He wrote: > This patch series aims to speedup the DPDK application start by optimize > the firmware loading process in sereval places. > We also simplify the port name in multiple PF firmware case to make the > customer happy. >
<...> > net/nfp: add the elf module > net/nfp: reload the firmware only when firmware changed Above commit adds elf parser capability and second one loads firmware when build time is different. I can see this is an optimization effort, to understand FW status before loading FW, but relying on build time seems fragile. Does it help to add a new section to store version information and evaluate based on this information?
