Re: [net-next PATCH v2 1/2] net: phy: aquantia: add firmware load support

From: Christian Marangi
Date: Wed Nov 01 2023 - 13:09:19 EST


On Wed, Nov 01, 2023 at 05:54:50PM +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > There are plenty of firmware around so it can be checked by from what I
> > have, it looks like they are word aligned... Ok I will use the
> > get_unaligned and add a comment saying that we assume the iram and dram
> > section are always word aligned.
>
> We probably want to know if there is firmware out there which is not
> word aligned. So i would probably do phydev_err() and return -EINVAL.
>

Do we have API to check this? Or I think I should just check the iram
and dram size and see if iram_size % sizeof(u32) is zero and return
error otherwise.

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