From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail2.candelatech.com ([208.74.158.173]) by merlin.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.85_2 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1bdJVE-0001EH-9T for ath10k@lists.infradead.org; Fri, 26 Aug 2016 15:57:08 +0000 Message-ID: <57C066B0.1000408@candelatech.com> Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2016 08:56:32 -0700 From: Ben Greear MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Free Software replacement for ath10k chipsets' firmware References: In-Reply-To: List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Sender: "ath10k" Errors-To: ath10k-bounces+kvalo=adurom.com@lists.infradead.org To: Raj Joshi , David Rabel Cc: ath10k 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 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 >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> ath10k mailing list >> ath10k@lists.infradead.org >> http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/ath10k >> > > _______________________________________________ > ath10k mailing list > ath10k@lists.infradead.org > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/ath10k > -- Ben Greear Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com _______________________________________________ ath10k mailing list ath10k@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/ath10k