[ANN]: new experimental firmware for 3160 / 7260 / 7265

[ANN]: new experimental firmware for 3160 / 7260 / 7265

[Emmanuel Grumbach]

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We released an experimental firmware for 3160 / 7260 / 7265.

It is available from my linux-firmware.git clone:

3160: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/egrumbach/linux-firmware.git/plain/iwlwifi-3160-9.ucode?h=Core6
7260: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/egrumbach/linux-firmware.git/plain/iwlwifi-7260-9.ucode?h=Core6
7265: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/egrumbach/linux-firmware.git/plain/iwlwifi-7265-9.ucode?h=Core6

We had an issue with the version number in this stream, so I can't release it officially, nor can I send a pull request to integrate it to linux-firmware.git.
I am working with the firmware team to fix the version issue.
I still would be glad to have more testing on this firmware, so any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
It has gone through our regular testing cycles, but "field" feedback is always valuable.

Thanks in advance to anyone who will test it.

New (temporary) version number: 25.223.9.0



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Re: [ANN]: new experimental firmware for 3160 / 7260 / 7265

[Larry Finger]

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On 07/27/2014 12:51 PM, Emmanuel Grumbach wrote:
> We released an experimental firmware for 3160 / 7260 / 7265.
> 
> It is available from my linux-firmware.git clone:
> 
> 3160:
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/egrumbach/linux-firmware.git/plain/iwlwifi-3160-9.ucode?h=Core6
>
> 
7260:
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/egrumbach/linux-firmware.git/plain/iwlwifi-7260-9.ucode?h=Core6
> 7265:
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/egrumbach/linux-firmware.git/plain/iwlwifi-7265-9.ucode?h=Core6
>
>  We had an issue with the version number in this stream, so I can't release
> it officially, nor can I send a pull request to integrate it to
> linux-firmware.git. I am working with the firmware team to fix the version
> issue. I still would be glad to have more testing on this firmware, so any
> feedback would be greatly appreciated. It has gone through our regular
> testing cycles, but "field" feedback is always valuable.
> 
> Thanks in advance to anyone who will test it.
> 
> New (temporary) version number: 25.223.9.0

I have been running the new version of the 7260 firmware in the 2.4 GHz band.
After approximately 24 hours, I have had no disconnects. At a distance of
about 2 m from a Netgear WNDR3400v2 router, I get netperf transfers of 61-63
Mbps in both directions. In the much-quieter 5 GHz band, the transfers run at
~90 Mbps.

The new firmware looks good.

Larry


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RE: [ANN]: new experimental firmware for 3160 / 7260 / 7265

[Grumbach, Emmanuel]

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Re: [ANN]: new experimental firmware for 3160 / 7260 / 7265

[Larry Finger]

On 07/28/2014 02:41 PM, Grumbach, Emmanuel wrote:
> Thanks for that!
> Good means better than the previous one, or the previous performed well too?

I never measured throughput with the older version. What I did see were
intermittent firmware crashes. So far, I have not seen any of those with the new
version.

Larry