On 2/20/26 2:53 PM, George Moussalem wrote: > > > On 2/20/26 14:36, Konrad Dybcio wrote: >> 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 > > I think you checked for QCN9074 which uses amss.bin and m3.bin. For > IPQ5018, IPQ6018, and IPQ8074, m3_fw.mdt is there, see: > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ath/linux-firmware.git/tree/ath11k/IPQ5018/hw1.0 > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ath/linux-firmware.git/tree/ath11k/IPQ6018/hw1.0 > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ath/linux-firmware.git/tree/ath11k/IPQ8074/hw2.0
Snap, you're right. I think a simple ln -s file.mbn file.mdt should work though? mdt_loader seems not to care about the file extension at a glance. Konrad
