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On 09.02.2021 19:35, Jakub Kicinski wrote:

> 
> Sounds like we have 3 people who don't like FW-heavy designs dominating
> the kernel - this conversation can only go one way. 
> 
> Marvell, Plvision anything to share? AFAIU the values of Linux kernel
> are open source, healthy community, empowering users. With the SDK on
> the embedded CPU your driver does not seem to tick any of these boxes.
> 

I agree that FW-less solution has many advantages that enable the community
to engage in its development actively. We have continuance discussions with
Marvell and as Mickey stated, more PP modules will be managed from in-kernel 
code and not from FW allowing kernel developers to extend/improve it.