[dpdk-dev] [EXT] [PATCH 0/2] Support compressed firmwares

[Igor Russkikh]

> Fedora 34 only provides compressed firmwares.
> 
> Introduce an internal driver helper to handle transparently compression.
> 
> I chose libarchive for decompressing as it seems widely available and
> DPDK had used it in the past.
> 
> Windows support only matters for net/ice and firmware loading was skipped
> in this driver before this series. Since I don't know if/how we want to
> load firmwares on Windows, I let an empty stub for this OS.
> 
> This series has been compile tested on Linux (I'll trust the CI for
> others OSes).
> I only tested basic init with a net/ice device (no DCF test).
> 
> So please drivers maintainers, check nothing is broken.

Hi David,

We (Marvell QED) already provide packed version of FW in linux-firmware:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/tree/qed 

But thats a custom name, and zlib.

I'm just wondering if its a good solution to try transparently load .xz variant?
User may not expect that. M.b. through this api, give a driver an option to specify
archive format? Or even autodetect it from content?

Regards,
  Igor