Re: mwifiex firmware mrvl/sd8987_uapsta.bin missing in the firmware git

[Andreas Kemnade <andreas@kemnade.info>]

Am Wed, 05 Jun 2024 14:43:53 +0000
schrieb Tamás Szűcs <tszucs@protonmail.ch>:

> Hi Andreas,
> 
> Excellent point. Please note, that btmrvl_sdio needs an SDIO BT FW.
> So, mrvl/sd8987_uapsta.bin should preferably be a such a combo FW.
> 
as said the firmware here seems to work for me (after renaming):
https://github.com/nxp-imx/imx-firmware/blob/lf-6.6.3_1.0.0/nxp/FwImage_8987/sdiouart8987_combo_v0.bin

I can use bluetooth together with btnxpuart driver and firmware
/lib/firmware/nxp/uartuart8987_bt.bin which is officially part of
linux-firmware and also in the same directory in the imx-firmware git
mentioned above.

> Unfortunately, to my knowledge, none is available publicly. Also,
> after the acquisition of Marvell IoT, NXP regrettably decided to
> develop mwifiex downstream, here https://github.com/nxp-imx/mwifiex.
> 
> It is what it is. Due to licensing, the FW binary should come from
> NXP. I cannot arrange that.

Regarding license I found that snippet in nxp/SCR_nxp.txt:
Package:                   FwImage_8997, FwImage_8987, FwImage_8801,
FwImage_9098, FwImage_IW416, FwImage_IW612 Outgoing License:
LA_OPT_NXP_Software_License - Production Use, Section 2.3 applies
License File:              EULA.txt

Section 2.3 is:
2.3.        Additional Distribution License

But that is all legalese and I am not a lawyer... Best is of course
something officially added from NXP. No idea if it can be done
otherwise. How to make NXP add something?

Regards,
Andreas