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+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+menu "Firmware loader"
+
+config FW_LOADER
+ tristate "Firmware loading facility" if EXPERT
+ default y
+ help
+ This enables the firmware loading facility in the kernel. The kernel
+ will first look for built-in firmware, if it has any. Next, it will
+ look for the requested firmware in a series of filesystem paths:
+
+ o firmware_class path module parameter or kernel boot param
+ o /lib/firmware/updates/UTS_RELEASE
+ o /lib/firmware/updates
+ o /lib/firmware/UTS_RELEASE
+ o /lib/firmware
+
+ Enabling this feature only increases your kernel image by about
+ 828 bytes, enable this option unless you are certain you don't
+ need firmware.
+
+ You typically want this built-in (=y) but you can also enable this
+ as a module, in which case the firmware_class module will be built.
+ You also want to be sure to enable this built-in if you are going to
+ enable built-in firmware (CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE).
+
+if FW_LOADER
+
+config FW_LOADER_PAGED_BUF
+ bool
+
+config FW_LOADER_SYSFS
+ bool
+
+config EXTRA_FIRMWARE
+ string "Build named firmware blobs into the kernel binary"
+ help
+ Device drivers which require firmware can typically deal with
+ having the kernel load firmware from the various supported
+ /lib/firmware/ paths. This option enables you to build into the
+ kernel firmware files. Built-in firmware searches are preceded
+ over firmware lookups using your filesystem over the supported
+ /lib/firmware paths documented on CONFIG_FW_LOADER.
+
+ This may be useful for testing or if the firmware is required early on
+ in boot and cannot rely on the firmware being placed in an initrd or
+ initramfs.
+
+ This option is a string and takes the (space-separated) names of the
+ firmware files -- the same names that appear in MODULE_FIRMWARE()
+ and request_firmware() in the source. These files should exist under
+ the directory specified by the EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR option, which is
+ /lib/firmware by default.
+
+ For example, you might set CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE="usb8388.bin", copy
+ the usb8388.bin file into /lib/firmware, and build the kernel. Then
+ any request_firmware("usb8388.bin") will be satisfied internally
+ inside the kernel without ever looking at your filesystem at runtime.
+
+ WARNING: If you include additional firmware files into your binary
+ kernel image that are not available under the terms of the GPL,
+ then it may be a violation of the GPL to distribute the resulting
+ image since it combines both GPL and non-GPL work. You should
+ consult a lawyer of your own before distributing such an image.
+
+ NOTE: Compressed files are not supported in EXTRA_FIRMWARE.
+
+config EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR
+ string "Firmware blobs root directory"
+ depends on EXTRA_FIRMWARE != ""
+ default "/lib/firmware"
+ help
+ This option controls the directory in which the kernel build system
+ looks for the firmware files listed in the EXTRA_FIRMWARE option.
+
+config FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER
+ bool "Enable the firmware sysfs fallback mechanism"
+ select FW_LOADER_SYSFS
+ select FW_LOADER_PAGED_BUF
+ help
+ This option enables a sysfs loading facility to enable firmware
+ loading to the kernel through userspace as a fallback mechanism
+ if and only if the kernel's direct filesystem lookup for the
+ firmware failed using the different /lib/firmware/ paths, or the
+ path specified in the firmware_class path module parameter, or the
+ firmware_class path kernel boot parameter if the firmware_class is
+ built-in. For details on how to work with the sysfs fallback mechanism
+ refer to Documentation/driver-api/firmware/fallback-mechanisms.rst.
+
+ The direct filesystem lookup for firmware is always used first now.
+
+ If the kernel's direct filesystem lookup for firmware fails to find
+ the requested firmware a sysfs fallback loading facility is made
+ available and userspace is informed about this through uevents.
+ The uevent can be suppressed if the driver explicitly requested it,
+ this is known as the driver using the custom fallback mechanism.
+ If the custom fallback mechanism is used userspace must always
+ acknowledge failure to find firmware as the timeout for the fallback
+ mechanism is disabled, and failed requests will linger forever.
+
+ This used to be the default firmware loading facility, and udev used
+ to listen for uvents to load firmware for the kernel. The firmware
+ loading facility functionality in udev has been removed, as such it
+ can no longer be relied upon as a fallback mechanism. Linux no longer
+ relies on or uses a fallback mechanism in userspace. If you need to
+ rely on one refer to the permissively licensed firmwared:
+
+ https://github.com/teg/firmwared
+
+ Since this was the default firmware loading facility at one point,
+ old userspace may exist which relies upon it, and as such this
+ mechanism can never be removed from the kernel.
+
+ You should only enable this functionality if you are certain you
+ require a fallback mechanism and have a userspace mechanism ready to
+ load firmware in case it is not found. One main reason for this may
+ be if you have drivers which require firmware built-in and for
+ whatever reason cannot place the required firmware in initramfs.
+ Another reason kernels may have this feature enabled is to support a
+ driver which explicitly relies on this fallback mechanism. Only two
+ drivers need this today:
+
+ o CONFIG_LEDS_LP55XX_COMMON
+ o CONFIG_DELL_RBU
+
+ Outside of supporting the above drivers, another reason for needing
+ this may be that your firmware resides outside of the paths the kernel
+ looks for and cannot possibly be specified using the firmware_class
+ path module parameter or kernel firmware_class path boot parameter
+ if firmware_class is built-in.
+
+ A modern use case may be to temporarily mount a custom partition
+ during provisioning which is only accessible to userspace, and then
+ to use it to look for and fetch the required firmware. Such type of
+ driver functionality may not even ever be desirable upstream by
+ vendors, and as such is only required to be supported as an interface
+ for provisioning. Since udev's firmware loading facility has been
+ removed you can use firmwared or a fork of it to customize how you
+ want to load firmware based on uevents issued.
+
+ Enabling this option will increase your kernel image size by about
+ 13436 bytes.
+
+ If you are unsure about this, say N here, unless you are Linux
+ distribution and need to support the above two drivers, or you are
+ certain you need to support some really custom firmware loading
+ facility in userspace.
+
+config FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER_FALLBACK
+ bool "Force the firmware sysfs fallback mechanism when possible"
+ depends on FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER
+ help
+ Enabling this option forces a sysfs userspace fallback mechanism
+ to be used for all firmware requests which explicitly do not disable a
+ a fallback mechanism. Firmware calls which do prohibit a fallback
+ mechanism is request_firmware_direct(). This option is kept for
+ backward compatibility purposes given this precise mechanism can also
+ be enabled by setting the proc sysctl value to true:
+
+ /proc/sys/kernel/firmware_config/force_sysfs_fallback
+
+ If you are unsure about this, say N here.
+
+config FW_LOADER_COMPRESS
+ bool "Enable compressed firmware support"
+ help
+ This option enables the support for loading compressed firmware
+ files. The caller of firmware API receives the decompressed file
+ content. The compressed file is loaded as a fallback, only after
+ loading the raw file failed at first.
+
+ Compressed firmware support does not apply to firmware images
+ that are built into the kernel image (CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE).
+
+if FW_LOADER_COMPRESS
+config FW_LOADER_COMPRESS_XZ
+ bool "Enable XZ-compressed firmware support"
+ select FW_LOADER_PAGED_BUF
+ select XZ_DEC
+ default y
+ help
+ This option adds the support for XZ-compressed files.
+ The files have to be compressed with either none or crc32
+ integrity check type (pass "-C crc32" option to xz command).
+
+config FW_LOADER_COMPRESS_ZSTD
+ bool "Enable ZSTD-compressed firmware support"
+ select ZSTD_DECOMPRESS
+ help
+ This option adds the support for ZSTD-compressed files.
+
+endif # FW_LOADER_COMPRESS
+
+config FW_CACHE
+ bool "Enable firmware caching during suspend"
+ depends on PM_SLEEP
+ default y if PM_SLEEP
+ help
+ Because firmware caching generates uevent messages that are sent
+ over a netlink socket, it can prevent suspend on many platforms.
+ It is also not always useful, so on such platforms we have the
+ option.
+
+ If unsure, say Y.
+
+config FW_UPLOAD
+ bool "Enable users to initiate firmware updates using sysfs"
+ select FW_LOADER_SYSFS
+ select FW_LOADER_PAGED_BUF
+ help
+ Enabling this option will allow device drivers to expose a persistent
+ sysfs interface that allows firmware updates to be initiated from
+ userspace. For example, FPGA based PCIe cards load firmware and FPGA
+ images from local FLASH when the card boots. The images in FLASH may
+ be updated with new images provided by the user. Enable this device
+ to support cards that rely on user-initiated updates for firmware files.
+
+ If unsure, say N.
+
+endif # FW_LOADER
+endmenu