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From:   Yangfl <mmyangfl@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 17 Mar 2023 23:29:32 +0800
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: phy: hisi-festa: Add support for HiSilicon Festa PHYs
To:     Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
Cc:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>, Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        netdev@vger.kernel.org
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Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com> =E4=BA=8E2023=E5=B9=B43=E6=9C=8817=
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>
> On 17.03.2023 15:30, David Yang wrote:
> > HiSilicon Festa PHYs were used on some HiSilicon SoCs. This patch injec=
ts
> > firmwares found on vendor kernels.
> >
> What's the status of adding the firmware files to linux-firmware?
> I don't see any related patch in the linux-firmware mailing list archive.
>
> Any info on purpose of firmware? Does the PHY work normally also
> w/o firmware? Or is the firmware required?

I don't know if this patch is feasible; if yes, I will post files to
linux-firmware.

The firmware is optional; vendor kernel source simply said "improve
performance".