Re: [PATCH v2] remoteproc: mtk_scp: Construct FW path if firmware-name not present

[AngeloGioacchino Del Regno <angelogioacchino.delregno@collabora.com>]

Il 30/10/25 10:10, Arnd Bergmann ha scritto:
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2025, at 09:21, Chen-Yu Tsai wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 29, 2025 at 7:05 PM AngeloGioacchino Del Regno
>> <angelogioacchino.delregno@collabora.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> I guess I can send a followup patch?
>>>
>>> The only followup patch that I deem to be necessary is one adding a symlink
>>> or renaming for MT8188's SCP and nothing else.
>>
>> The firmware was uploaded in March of 2025, and is packaged in Debian
>> Trixie, and was also backported to Bookworm. Either adding a symlink or
>> renaming it won't trickle down to users for some time. So this seems
>> like a possible ABI break, where the ABI is the file name.
>>
>> Or maybe you don't consider it as such because SCP hasn't been enabled
>> in the kernel in any release yet?

Just as a clarification:

Exactly, SCP hasn't been enabled in the kernel in any release in the specific
case of MT8188, so this is not breaking anything, and it's not creating any
regression.

> 
> It's normally up to the kernel driver to know about the firmware
> file names and the order of trying the possible fallbacks, which
> is exactly why I originally asked to not rely on the property
> from dtb.
> 
> If you want a symlink in linux-firmware, that would go the other
> way, pointing the old filename to the new location.
> 
>      Arnd

Cheers!
Angelo