Re: [PATCH] qtnfmac: announcement of new FullMAC driver for Quantenna chipsets

[Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>]

Igor Mitsyanko <igor.mitsyanko.os@quantenna.com> writes:

> On 05/29/2016 02:35 PM, Jonas Gorski wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 26 May 2016 at 20:52, Avinash Patil <avinashp@quantenna.com> wrote:
>>> This patch adds support for new FullMAC WiFi driver for Quantenna
>>> QSR10G chipsets.
>>>
>>> QSR10G is Quantenna's 8x8, 160M, 11ac offering.
>>> QSR10G supports 2 simultaneous WMACs- one 5G and one 2G. 5G WMAC
>>> supports 160M, 8x8 configuration.
>>> FW supports 8 concurrent virtual interfaces on each WMAC.
>>>
>>> Patch introduces 2 new drivers- qtnfmac.ko for interfacing with
>>> kernel/cfg80211 and qtnfmac_pcie.ko for PCIe bus interface.
>> Nice to see this one, will you also provide a pearl-linux.lzma.img as
>> required for the firmware? What about cards in embedded devices, might
>> they require a uboot as well? Since requesting uboot seems to be
>> specifically supported by the card/firmware interface.
>
> Hi Jonas,
> we will provide firmware, but we're not sure at which point it should
> be done: addressing any review comments for driver may affect firmware
> itself, probably the best time to provide firmware would be after new
> driver is accepted and merged?

I would prefer to see the firmware images publically available before
the driver gets applied. What if you send the firmware patches as RFC
only to linux-wireless? That way linux-firmware.git maintainers won't
apply them, hopefully. And mention in the commit log that this is just
for testing purposes, not to be applied.

-- 
Kalle Valo