Re: [PATCH] docs: driver-api: firmware: add driver firmware guidelines. (v2)

2022-07-21 Thread Dave Airlie
> It is hard to enforce how vendors will version their firmware. On media, > we have some drivers whose major means different hardware versions. For > instance, on xc3028, v3.x means low voltage chips, while v2.x means > "normal" voltage. We end changing the file name on Linux to avoid the risk > o

[PATCH] docs: driver-api: firmware: add driver firmware guidelines. (v2)

2022-07-19 Thread Dave Airlie
From: Dave Airlie A recent snafu where Intel ignored upstream feedback on a firmware change, led to a late rc6 fix being required. In order to avoid this in the future we should document some expectations around linux-firmware. I was originally going to write this for drm, but it seems quite gen