On 2/19/26 8:42 PM, Jeff Johnson wrote: > On 1/13/2026 1:20 AM, Varadarajan Narayanan wrote: >> From: George Moussalem <[email protected]> >> >> Enable nodes required for q6 remoteproc bring up. > > I just recently became aware of this series, and have some questions... > >> + q6v5_wcss: remoteproc@cd00000 { >> + compatible = "qcom,ipq5018-wcss-sec-pil"; >> + reg = <0x0cd00000 0x10000>; >> + firmware-name = "ath11k/IPQ5018/hw1.0/q6_fw.mbn"; > > This file does not currently exist in linux-firmware. > Instead there is q6_fw.mdt with associated .b* files. > > How do we transition from .mdt to .mbn given that distros update their version > of linux-firmware independently from kernel updates? Will we need to have both > the .mdt and .mbn files present for some period of time? Are there associated > changes which no longer attempt to load the .mdt files?
Since there are no in-kernel users for this one (the ipq8074 WCSS driver requests that but no DT is wired up), I would say we should promptly move to MBN.. > I ask because I've been told the ath11k/ath12k drivers will also need to > transition their firmware loading from m3_fw.mdt to m3_fw.mbn, and I'm not > sure how to make that transition. I can't see any m3_fw.mdt in the tree or l-f, unless the m3.bin qualifies Konrad
