Re: [PATCH] bmi260: Add BMI260 IMU initial configuration data file

[Justin Weiss <justin@justinweiss.com>]

Josh Boyer <jwboyer@kernel.org> writes:

>> +Driver: bmi260 - Bosch BMI260 IMU configuration data
>> +File: bmi260-init-data.fw
>> +
>> +License:
>> + Copyright (c) 2020 Bosch Sensortec GmbH. All rights reserved.
>> +
>> + BSD-3-Clause
>
> The license doesn't go in WHENCE, it goes in a separate license file
> which is then referenced from WHENCE.  It is also later installed onto
> the target systems when installing linux-firmware.
>

Thanks, I'll make that change.

>> +Originates from
>> https://source.chromium.org/chromiumos/chromiumos/codesearch/+/main:src/platform/ec/third_party/bmi260/accelgyro_bmi260_config_tbin.h
>
> Normally we'd look for submissions of firmware to be sent by the
> company, or at least acked.  I doubt this will happen in this case.  I
> dug into the cited project a bit and there's a non-public bug
> https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/130415695 that is cited from
> the initial submission
> https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromiumos/platform/ec/+/2086534
> but that's not super helpful.

Unfortunately, I have not been able to get in touch with anyone from
Bosch on this. While searching for a contact, I did get an email
response from one of the particpants on the initial submission, who
said:

> Regarding the initialization config file, Bosch provided me with the
> LICENSE file that I submitted to the ChromiumOS codebase.

Justin

>
> josh
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