Re: Firmware blob in vs6624 driver

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Hi Ben,

> This doesn't touch any of the documented registers, so presumably it's a
> patch to the firmware loaded from non-volatile memory.  Unless you can
> provide source code for the patch, this should go in the linux-firmware
> repository and be loaded with request_firmware() instead of embedded in
> the GPL driver source.
Sounds reasonable.
>
> Also, shouldn't you check the loaded firmware version first to verify
> that it's safe to apply the patch?
The problem is you can't get version before power up device but you
should apply patch at that time.

Scott
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