[Intel-gfx] [CI] drm/i915/mtl: Define GuC firmware version for MTL

[Rodrigo Vivi]

On Thu, Apr 06, 2023 at 05:37:58PM -0700, Lucas De Marchi wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 31, 2023 at 03:52:16PM -0700, John.C.Harrison at Intel.com wrote:
> > From: John Harrison <John.C.Harrison at Intel.com>
> > 
> > First release of GuC for Meteorlake.
> > 
> > NB: As this is still pre-release and likely to change, use explicit
> > versioning for now. The official, full release will use reduced
> > version naming.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: John Harrison <John.C.Harrison at Intel.com>
> 
> Applied to topic/core-for-CI with acks by Rodrigo and Tvrtko.
> Reference issue: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/intel/-/issues/8343
> 
> Going forward we should plan to have these kind of patches in
> drm-intel-gt-next itself rather than using the CI branch. The CI branch
> is not the proper place.
> 
> To be clear, since MTL is under force probe and not normally enabled,
> it's ok to bump the major version without retaining compabibility with
> the previous version, as per
> https://docs.kernel.org/driver-api/firmware/firmware-usage-guidelines.html
> 
> 
> I think the main blocker right now to use drm-intel-gt-next would be
> because MODULE_FIRMWARE() is unaware of force_probe. Then distros
> would start getting a warning when creating their initrd that they may
> have missed a firmware. But that firmware itself is not present in the
> upstream linux-firmware repo.  We can think about a way to hide the fw
> def for *new* firmware (not the legacy ones) that are using the mmp
> version.

Maybe we should simply move to the final version path sooner than later?

Even if that means more updates in the blobs at linux-firmware.git, that
would allow the OSVs to have this final patch sooner in their trees.

> 
> For now, let's keep this as is and use the CI branch to assess the
> driver health with GuC.
> 
> 
> thanks
> Lucas De Marchi
> 
> > ---
> > drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/uc/intel_uc_fw.c | 1 +
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/uc/intel_uc_fw.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/uc/intel_uc_fw.c
> > index 264c952f777bb..1ac6f9f340e31 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/uc/intel_uc_fw.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/uc/intel_uc_fw.c
> > @@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ void intel_uc_fw_change_status(struct intel_uc_fw *uc_fw,
> >  * security fixes, etc. to be enabled.
> >  */
> > #define INTEL_GUC_FIRMWARE_DEFS(fw_def, guc_maj, guc_mmp) \
> > +	fw_def(METEORLAKE,   0, guc_mmp(mtl,  70, 6, 5)) \
> > 	fw_def(DG2,          0, guc_maj(dg2,  70, 5)) \
> > 	fw_def(ALDERLAKE_P,  0, guc_maj(adlp, 70, 5)) \
> > 	fw_def(ALDERLAKE_P,  0, guc_mmp(adlp, 70, 1, 1)) \
> > -- 
> > 2.39.1
> >