From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail-wm0-f68.google.com ([74.125.82.68]:32813 "EHLO mail-wm0-f68.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1765105AbcLWRr0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Dec 2016 12:47:26 -0500 Received: by mail-wm0-f68.google.com with SMTP id u144so42716592wmu.0 for ; Fri, 23 Dec 2016 09:47:25 -0800 (PST) From: Christian Lamparter To: igor.mitsyanko.os@quantenna.com Cc: linux-firmware@kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Igor Mitsyanko , Kamlesh Rath , Sergey Matyukevich , Avinash Patil Subject: Re: [RFC] qtn: add FullMAC firmware for Quantenna QSR10G wifi device Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2016 18:47:22 +0100 Message-ID: <1796267.ZQn77y5fxL@debian64> (sfid-20161223_184825_069858_8DEC9A11) In-Reply-To: <1482505955-9310-1-git-send-email-igor.mitsyanko.os@quantenna.com> References: <87d1hmnrqj.fsf@purkki.adurom.net> <1482505955-9310-1-git-send-email-igor.mitsyanko.os@quantenna.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Friday, December 23, 2016 6:12:35 PM CET igor.mitsyanko.os@quantenna.com wrote: > From: Igor Mitsyanko > > QSR10G is Quantenna's 8x8, 160M, 11ac WiFi card. > > Signed-off-by: Kamlesh Rath > Signed-off-by: Sergey Matyukevich > Signed-off-by: Avinash Patil > Signed-off-by: Igor Mitsyanko > --- > This is an RFC patch that we sent to linux-wireless mailing list a while ago, > and it spawned a discussion regarding whether GPL sources has to be submitted > together with this firmware. We would like to clarify with linux-firmware maintainers > to understnad what should be our actions to allow this to be accepted. > - firmware contains GPL components; > - LICENCE file states that sources for GPL components will be provided on request > to oslegal@quantenna.com > > There was an opinion that it is not enough: precedent case like this with carl9170 > firmware was resolved by submitting GPL sources into linux-firmware repository > itself. The ar9170-usb firmware was released as GPL v2.0 from the get-go. And this was never a problem. What is THE PROBLEM though: "if all the patches from ar9170fw to carl9170fw and beyond (i.e new versions) have to be added to linux-firmware.git." Or not. That's why there was never a update to the carl9170fw. So be prepared for this scenario too. > Does the same applies to qsr10g firmware? > > The SDK that we use to build it is quite heavy (> 100MB, but with toolchain). > Maybe we can take another approach to place SDK separately on Quantenna website > (as a compressed archive), and add a link in linux-firmware? Yes, I would like to know this as well. Regards, Christian