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From: Chaoyong He <chaoyong.he@corigine.com>
To: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@amd.com>, "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Cc: oss-drivers <oss-drivers@corigine.com>,
	Nole Zhang <peng.zhang@corigine.com>,
	Long Wu <Long.Wu@nephogine.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH 1/3] net/nfp: add the elf module
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2024 02:38:34 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <SJ0PR13MB55456EE19BC4B0F3FDC98CEA9E5E2@SJ0PR13MB5545.namprd13.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ceecaa91-83d4-4543-93b0-59c36ef53fd8@amd.com>

> On 2/27/2024 11:15 AM, Chaoyong He wrote:
> > From: Peng Zhang <peng.zhang@corigine.com>
> >
> > Add the elf module, which can get mip information from the firmware
> > ELF file.
> >
> 
> What is MIP?

Microcode Information Page 

> Is it in the .note section of the ELF binary?

Yes

> How it is used?

Which is an interface driver can get some information from firmware.
We have a 'nfp_mip' module to manage the MIP of loaded firmware, and we add 'nfp_elf' module to directly parse the firmware ELF file.
Then we compare the 'version' filed of MIP.

> 
> Source code always refers it as MIP, can you please clarify it in the commit log?

Okay


  reply	other threads:[~2024-03-01  2:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-02-27 11:15 [PATCH 0/3] reload the firmware as needed Chaoyong He
2024-02-27 11:15 ` [PATCH 1/3] net/nfp: add the elf module Chaoyong He
2024-02-28 16:50   ` Ferruh Yigit
2024-03-01  2:38     ` Chaoyong He [this message]
2024-02-28 22:18   ` Stephen Hemminger
2024-03-01 17:22     ` Ferruh Yigit
2024-03-04  1:13       ` Chaoyong He
2024-03-04  8:50         ` Ferruh Yigit
2024-02-27 11:15 ` [PATCH 2/3] net/nfp: reload the firmware only when firmware changed Chaoyong He
2024-02-27 11:15 ` [PATCH 3/3] net/nfp: add force reload firmware option Chaoyong He
2024-02-28 16:53   ` Ferruh Yigit
2024-03-01  2:06     ` Chaoyong He
2024-03-01  8:42 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] reload the firmware as needed Chaoyong He
2024-03-01  8:42   ` [PATCH v2 1/3] net/nfp: add the elf module Chaoyong He
2024-03-01  8:42   ` [PATCH v2 2/3] net/nfp: reload the firmware only when firmware changed Chaoyong He
2024-03-01  8:42   ` [PATCH v2 3/3] net/nfp: add force reload firmware option Chaoyong He
2024-03-04 13:28   ` [PATCH v2 0/3] reload the firmware as needed Ferruh Yigit

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