From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: Raj Joshi <rajjoshi@comp.nus.edu.sg>,
David Rabel <David.Rabel@noresoft.com>
Cc: ath10k <ath10k@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: Free Software replacement for ath10k chipsets' firmware
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2016 08:56:32 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <57C066B0.1000408@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+uUJGsbq6wsgJVHY1g7nK=Ka4iRc46kj0PSxVvqVG-Cn4WCuA@mail.gmail.com>
I consider it virtually impossible. Most folks that could help you are
under NDA, and regardless it would be a huge task.
Better to hope that someday QCA gets tired of fixing and refixing
(and ignoring) the bugs themselves and opens the firmware.
Thank,
Ben
On 08/26/2016 12:12 AM, Raj Joshi wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> Thanks for bringing this up. It would be immensely useful to (re)gain
> control over all the PHY-MAC of QCA chips :)
>
> However, I am as clueless as you about getting started and about the
> quantum of effort required. It would be great to receive some
> pointers, if anyone has any clue.
>
> Thanks,
> Raj
>
> On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 12:16 AM, David Rabel <David.Rabel@noresoft.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi together,
>>
>> is anyone here working on or interested in writing a Free Software
>> replacement for any of the ath10k chipset's firmware?
>>
>> I want to work on this, but unfortunately it is very hard to find any
>> information on this topic on the Internet. Actually it is very hard to
>> find information about the chipsets in general.
>>
>> So if anyone is interested in working on this or wants to contribute
>> some knowledge, please let me know.
>>
>> Yours
>> David
>>
>>
>>
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2016-08-25 16:16 Free Software replacement for ath10k chipsets' firmware David Rabel
2016-08-26 7:12 ` Raj Joshi
2016-08-26 15:56 ` Ben Greear [this message]
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