Re: New staging repos for ath1*k firmware

Robert Marko
2024-03-07T08:39:46Z

On Wed, Mar 6, 2024 at 8:23 PM Jeff Johnson <quic_jjohnson@quicinc.com> wrote:
>
> Historically, prior to being incorporated into the linux-firmware
> project, firmware for kernel.org ath1*k drivers has been first published
> to Kalle's GitHub:
> https://github.com/kvalo/ath10k-firmware
> https://github.com/kvalo/ath11k-firmware
> (ath12k firmware was pushed to the ath11k-firmware repo on a temporary
> basis in anticipation of this move)
>
> But in order to have repos with multiple maintainers, as well as to have
> a hosting platform with more control, we have moved to CodeLinaro:
> https://git.codelinaro.org/clo/ath-firmware/ath10k-firmware
> https://git.codelinaro.org/clo/ath-firmware/ath11k-firmware
> https://git.codelinaro.org/clo/ath-firmware/ath12k-firmware
>
> Note that most people should not care about this -- normally you should
> use the firmware that is in the official linux-firmware repo:
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/
>
> You should only need to access the staging repos if you need a previous
> version to work around an issue, or if you are testing new firmware that
> is supposed to fix a problem that you've reported.
>
> Please let Kalle & I know if you have any issues with these new repos!

Can I please ask for IPQ6018 firmware to be updated to 2.9.0.1 as well?

We have added IPQ6018 support to OpenWrt but we are forced to use the old 2.4
firmware since anything newer is crashing on IPQ6018, we had the same issue on
IPQ8074 but it was fixed with 2.9.0.1 firmware.

Even for IPQ8074, there is newer 2.9.0.1 firmware that is only
available as part of
QSDK and the community would benefit from being able to use it.

Ideally, ath11k-firmware would at least contain the same blobs as the QUIC repo:
https://github.com/quic/upstream-wifi-fw.git

Regards,
Robert
>
> /jeff
>

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Robert Marko
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