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There was a misunderstanding in how firmware file compatibility should be managed within i915. This has been clarified as: i915 must support all existing firmware releases forever new minor firmware releases should replace prior versions only backwards compatibility breaking releases should be a new file This patch cleans up the single fallback file support that was added as a quick fix emergency effort. That is now removed in preference to supporting arbitrary numbers of firmware files per platform. The patch also adds support for having GuC firmware files that are named by major version only (because the major version indicates backwards breaking changes that affect the KMD) and for having HuC firmware files with no version number at all (because the KMD has no interface requirements with the HuC). For GuC, the driver will report via dmesg if the found file is older than expected. For HuC, the KMD will no longer require updating for any new HuC release so will not be able to report what the latest expected version is. Signed-off-by: John Harrison <John.C.Harrison@Intel.com> Reviewed-by: Daniele Ceraolo Spurio <daniele.ceraolospurio@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Daniele Ceraolo Spurio <daniele.ceraolospurio@intel.com> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20220906230147.479945-1-daniele.ceraolospurio@intel.com
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.