--- a/nss_hal/nss_hal.c
+++ b/nss_hal/nss_hal.c
@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@
 #include <linux/ethtool.h>
 
 #include "nss_hal.h"
-#include "nss_arch.h"
 #include "nss_core.h"
 #include "nss_tx_rx_common.h"
 #ifdef NSS_DATA_PLANE_GENERIC_SUPPORT
@@ -51,6 +50,7 @@
  */
 #define NSS_AP0_IMAGE "qca-nss0.bin"
 #define NSS_AP1_IMAGE "qca-nss1.bin"
+#define BUFFER_SIZE 8192
 
 /*
  * File local/Static variables/functions
@@ -58,6 +58,56 @@
 static const struct net_device_ops nss_netdev_ops;
 static const struct ethtool_ops nss_ethtool_ops;
 
+// Function to search for the byte sequence in the buffer
+static unsigned char *search_sequence(const unsigned char *buffer,
+				      size_t buffer_size,
+				      const unsigned char *sequence,
+				      size_t sequence_size)
+{
+	for (size_t i = 0; i <= buffer_size - sequence_size; i++) {
+		if (memcmp(buffer + i, sequence, sequence_size) == 0) {
+			return (unsigned char *)(buffer + i);
+		}
+	}
+	return NULL;
+}
+
+static int nss_hal_firmware_info(struct platform_device *nss_dev,
+				 const struct firmware *fw)
+{
+	unsigned char *start_pos, *end_pos;
+	size_t i;
+	unsigned char start_sequence[] = { 0x56, 0x65, 0x72, 0x73, 0x69, 0x6f, 0x6e, 0x3a, 0x20 };
+	unsigned char end_sequence[] = { 0x00 };
+	char version[256];
+	bool found = false;
+
+	// Search for the start sequence
+	start_pos = search_sequence(fw->data, fw->size, start_sequence, sizeof(start_sequence));
+	if (start_pos) {
+		start_pos += sizeof(start_sequence);
+
+		end_pos = search_sequence(start_pos, fw->size - (start_pos - fw->data), end_sequence, sizeof(end_sequence));
+		if (end_pos) {
+			// Convert the version information to a string
+			for (i = 0; start_pos + i < end_pos && i < sizeof(version) - 1; i++) {
+				version[i] = start_pos[i];
+			}
+			version[i] = '\0';
+
+			dev_info(&nss_dev->dev, "NSS fw version: %s\n", version);
+			found = true;
+		}
+	}
+
+	if (!found) {
+		dev_err(&nss_dev->dev, "Unable to get NSS fw version\n");
+		return -EINVAL;
+	}
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
 int nss_hal_firmware_load(struct nss_ctx_instance *nss_ctx, struct platform_device *nss_dev, struct nss_platform_data *npd)
 {
 	const struct firmware *nss_fw;
@@ -81,7 +131,6 @@ int nss_hal_firmware_load(struct nss_ctx
 		return rc;
 	}
 
-
 	load_mem = ioremap(npd->load_addr, nss_fw->size);
 	if (!load_mem) {
 		nss_info_always("%px: ioremap failed: %x", nss_ctx, npd->load_addr);
@@ -89,6 +138,10 @@ int nss_hal_firmware_load(struct nss_ctx
 		return rc;
 	}
 
+	if (nss_ctx->id == 0) {
+	  nss_hal_firmware_info(nss_dev, nss_fw);
+	}
+
 	dev_info(&nss_dev->dev, "fw of size %d bytes copied to addr: %x, nss_id: %d\n", (int)nss_fw->size, npd->load_addr, nss_ctx->id);
 	memcpy_toio(load_mem, nss_fw->data, nss_fw->size);
 	release_firmware(nss_fw);