APPLIED/cmnt: [SRU][linux-firmware][Focal][PULL] Add Intel IPU6 MIPI camera fw for Alder Lake platform

[You-Sheng Yang]

On Tue, Jan 4, 2022 at 5:56 PM Juerg Haefliger
<juerg.haefliger at canonical.com> wrote:
>
> Applied to linux-firmware focal branch.
>
> Note that I've modified the 'backported from' line to:
> (backported from e60fae2b5128cf5b8b948b234dab28e58c93877 github.com/intel/ipu6-camera-bins)
>
> The convention is:
> (backported from <COMMIT_HASH> [<COMMIT_PROVENANCE>])

Thank you. I'll follow in the future patches.

> ...Juerg
>
>
> > BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1955383
> >
> > [Impact]
> >
> > Intel IPU6 MIPI camera on Alder Lake platform takes a different fw blob.
> >
> > [Fix]
> >
> > While Intel has no intention to upstream IPU6 driver before kernel
> > camera is out, it's available in
> > https://github.com/intel/ipu6-camera-bins commit e60fae2b5128 from its
> > main branch.
> >
> > [Test Case]
> >
> > This would take both kernel and firmware fixes, as well as updates for
> > the userspace middleware, gstreamer element plugin, to enable the device.
> > With all of them in position, one should be able to browse camera with
> > legacy camera apps like cheese.
> >
> > [Where problems could occur]
> >
> > It's confirmed Intel IPU6 MIPI camera doesn't support suspend at
> > streaming.
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > The following changes since commit b3a44adcba25271f0e9ac67d4ba2c42a6ff033e3:
> >
> >   UBUNTU: Ubuntu-1.187.24 (2021-12-16 16:01:59 +0100)
> >
> > are available in the Git repository at:
> >
> >   https://git.launchpad.net/~vicamo/ubuntu/+source/linux-firmware bug-1955383/ipu6-adl-fw/focal-pull
> >
> > for you to fetch changes up to 58970aa3d8e49327b7ef11394ccceae8e6a5c5a3:
> >
> >   UBUNTU: SAUCE: Camera bins release on 2021-11-01 for Alder Lake (2021-12-20 14:31:57 +0800)
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------
> > Hao Yao (1):
> >       UBUNTU: SAUCE: Camera bins release on 2021-11-01 for Alder Lake
> >
> >  WHENCE.ubuntu       |   1 +
> >  intel/ipu6ep_fw.bin | Bin 0 -> 458752 bytes
> >  2 files changed, 1 insertion(+)
> >  create mode 100644 intel/ipu6ep_fw.bin
> >
>


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Regards,
You-Sheng Yang