Extend the firmware subsystem to support a persistent sysfs interface that
userspace may use to initiate a firmware update. For example, FPGA based
PCIe cards load firmware and FPGA images from local FLASH when the card
boots. The images in FLASH may be updated with new images provided by the
user at his/her convenience.
A device driver may call firmware_upload_register() to expose persistent
"loading" and "data" sysfs files. These files are used in the same way as
the fallback sysfs "loading" and "data" files. When 0 is written to
"loading" to complete the write of firmware data, the data is transferred
to the lower-level driver using pre-registered call-back functions. The
data transfer is done in the context of a kernel worker thread.
Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Tianfei zhang <tianfei.zhang@intel.com>
Tested-by: Matthew Gerlach <matthew.gerlach@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Russ Weight <russell.h.weight@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220421212204.36052-5-russell.h.weight@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Let the description of the efi/libstub/mem.c functions appear in the kernel
API documentation in the following chapters:
The Linux driver implementer’s API guide
Linux Firmware API
UEFI Support
UEFI stub library functions
Acked-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200221035832.144960-1-xypron.glpk@gmx.de
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200308080859.21568-9-ardb@kernel.org
There are several stuff there that are actually driver-specific.
Move those to the driver_api book.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Understanding this code is getting out of control without any
notes. Give the firmware_class driver a much needed documentation love,
and while at it convert it to the new sphinx documentation format.
v2: typos and small fixes
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Russ Weight