From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail-ee0-f49.google.com ([74.125.83.49]:48928 "EHLO mail-ee0-f49.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750706AbaCVMWD (ORCPT ); Sat, 22 Mar 2014 08:22:03 -0400 Received: by mail-ee0-f49.google.com with SMTP id c41so2711490eek.8 for ; Sat, 22 Mar 2014 05:22:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <532D809D.4060605@googlemail.com> Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 13:22:53 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Frank_Sch=E4fer?= MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dheitmueller@kernellabs.com CC: Linux Media Mailing List Subject: Re: xc2038/3028 firmware References: <532C75F8.2030405@googlemail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-media-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi Devin, Am 21.03.2014 18:38, schrieb Devin Heitmueller: > Hi Frank, > > I specifically asked for and received permission from > Xceive/CrestaTech to make the xc5000 firmware freely redistributable. > They were unwilling to entertain that though for the xc2028/3028 as > they considered it a long deprecated product. > > In order to include firmware blobs in linux-firmware, there needs to > be an actual license legally permitting redistribution - we don't have > that for the 2028/3028. > > In general CrestaTech have been extremely cooperative with the Linux > community, especially in recent years. However in this case they just > couldn't justify the effort to do the paperwork for a chip that they > stopped shipping years ago. > > Devin Ok, so you've already asked them for a xc2028/3028 firmware redistribution permission, but (in opposition to the xc5000) they didn't grant it ? Too bad. :-( The xc2028/3028 is used in so many devices and playing manual firmware extraction games sucks. A too big obstacle for many users (if they even find out that their device isn't working due to missing firmware)... Regards, Frank > On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 1:25 PM, Frank Schäfer > wrote: >> Hi, >> >> are there any reasons why the xc2028/3028 firmware files are not >> included in the linux-firmware tree ? >> The xc5000 firmware is already there, so it seems Xceive|has nothing >> against| redistribution of their firmware... ?! >> >> Regards, >> Frank >> -- >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in >> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > >