bnxt_en: Enable batch mode when using HWRM_NVM_MODIFY to flash packages.
The current scheme allocates a DMA buffer as big as the requested firmware package file and DMAs the contents to firmware in one operation. The buffer size can be several hundred kilo bytes and the driver may not be able to allocate the memory. This will cause firmware upgrade to fail. Improve the scheme by using smaller DMA blocks and calling firmware to DMA each block in a batch mode. Older firmware can cause excessive NVRAM erases if the block size is too small so we try to allocate a 256K buffer to begin with and size it down successively if we cannot allocate the memory. Reviewed-by: Edwin Peer <edwin.peer@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <michael.chan@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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