[Buildroot] [PATCH v2 1/8] package/freescale-imx/firmware-imx: bump version to 8.10

[Romain Naour]

Hello Heiko,

Le 13/01/2021 à 09:27, Heiko Thiery a écrit :
> Hi All,
> 
>> So with your change, the first try fail using "/lib/firmware/vpu_fw_imx53.bin".
>> But "/lib/firmware/vpu/vpu_fw_imx53.bin" succeed.
>>
>> "firmware request failed" message should never appear in your dmesg log.
>>
>> I believe there is a confusion between firmware (such vpu firmware) and imx sdma
>> firmware that require to be installed to "/lib/firmware/imx" directory.
> 
> Not really related to this discussion about vpu fw but I also faced an
> issue with an imx8mq board and the SDMA firmware.
> 
> # dmesg | grep sdma
> [    0.178729] imx-sdma 302c0000.sdma: Direct firmware load for
> imx/sdma/sdma-imx7d.bin failed with error -2
> [    0.178763] imx-sdma 302c0000.sdma: Falling back to sysfs fallback
> for: imx/sdma/sdma-imx7d.bin

based on the log timing, I would say that the rootfs wasn't mounted when the
imx-sdma has been probed.

Try to compile the driver as a module, not bundled into the kernel image.

Best regards,
Romain


> [   60.381850] imx-sdma 302c0000.sdma: external firmware not found,
> using ROM firmware
> [   60.389889] imx-sdma 30bd0000.sdma: external firmware not found,
> using ROM firmware
> # ls /lib/firmware/imx/sdma/^C
> # find / -name sdma-imx7d.bin
> /lib/firmware/imx/sdma/sdma-imx7d.bin
> 
> Has anyone an idea what is going wrong?
> 
> Thank you
>