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wifi: rtw89: introduce infrastructure of firmware elements
In order to pack more data into firmware file, we introduce firmware elements and append BB_MCU firmware first. The first part of new firmware file is still unchanged firmware of WiFi CPU, so the new firmware format can be backward compatible to old format. The new elements part consists of ID and size basically, which can append more elements simply. To avoid unaligned access in certain platform and be easy to read, headers of all elements start at 16-byte aligned address. +===========================================+ | original firmware | | +-------------+ | | padding | +===========================================+ | elm ID 1 | elm size | other header data | +----------+----------+ | | | +-------------------------------------------+ | content (variable length) | | +-------------+ | | padding | +===========================================+ | elm ID 2 | elm size | other header data | +----------+----------+ | | | +-------------------------------------------+ | content (variable length) | | +-----------------------+ | | (no padding for the last one) +===================+ More detail of element header is shown below. The additional fields 'version' and 'element_priv[]' are meta data of elements, so that we can know element version easily, and element_priv[] provide specific fields for certain element, such as RF path index for RF parameter tables. +===========================================+ | elm ID | elm size | version | rsvd0 | +----------+----------+----------+----------+ | rsvd1/2 | element_priv[] | +-------------------------------------------+ Signed-off-by: Ping-Ke Shih <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <[email protected]> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
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