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ARM: imx_v6_v7_defconfig: Remove firmware loader helper

Message ID 20230418131030.330178-1-festevam@gmail.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series ARM: imx_v6_v7_defconfig: Remove firmware loader helper | expand

Commit Message

Fabio Estevam April 18, 2023, 1:10 p.m. UTC 
Testing on a imx6dl board with a QCA9377 SDIO Wifi chip shows that the
QCA9377 firmware takes more than three minutes to start getting loaded,
which is a very inconvenient behavior.

CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER and CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER_FALLBACK
were selected by commit 30fdd51be161 ("ARM: imx_v6_v7_defconfig:
add CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER")

By removing the CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER and
CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER_FALLBACK options the QCA9377 firmware is
loaded around 10 seconds after boot, which is the expected behavior.

The motivation for commit 30fdd51be161 ("ARM: imx_v6_v7_defconfig:
add CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER") was related to loading the SDMA
firmware,and at the time of that commit, the SDMA driver was loaded
as built-in.

Now that the SDMA driver is selected as a kernel module, its firmware can
be successfully loaded as well without the need of 
CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER and CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER_FALLBACK.

Remove the selection of these two options.

Also, successfully tested the loading of the VPU firmware without
these options.

Signed-off-by: Fabio Estevam <festevam@gmail.com>
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 arch/arm/configs/imx_v6_v7_defconfig | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/arch/arm/configs/imx_v6_v7_defconfig b/arch/arm/configs/imx_v6_v7_defconfig
index 4de293da4789..63042f8f1e17 100644
--- a/arch/arm/configs/imx_v6_v7_defconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/configs/imx_v6_v7_defconfig
@@ -80,8 +80,6 @@  CONFIG_PCI_IMX6_HOST=y
 CONFIG_DEVTMPFS=y
 CONFIG_DEVTMPFS_MOUNT=y
 # CONFIG_STANDALONE is not set
-CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER=y
-CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER_FALLBACK=y
 CONFIG_IMX_WEIM=y
 CONFIG_CONNECTOR=y
 CONFIG_MTD=y