Re: [DONOTAPPLY RFC PATCH v2 0/4] WiFi support for samsung,coreprimevelte

["Karel Balej" <balejk@matfyz.cz>]

Hello, Francesco,

Francesco Dolcini, 2026-04-29T13:22:32+02:00:
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2026 at 12:55:23PM +0200, Karel Balej wrote:
>> without the firmware being in linux-firmware?
>
> What's the license of this firmware? Am I wrong saying that if
> the license allows it, you could just send a patch to have it integrated
> to the linux-firmware repository? Is there any history or documentation
> on the topic (please apologize if this is a well known topic, just
> answer RTFM if this is the case).

that's one of the issues, the license is not specified explicitly
anywhere as far as I know. Likely it is the same as the other Marvell
blobs already in linux-firmware (the mrvl directory), but we don't know
for sure.

As far as I know, even if I was to submit the firmware myself, it would
still require a sign-off from someone from NXP [1].

> I read a couple of days ago that for example the firmwares for the
> various Apple arm64 laptop cannot be redistributed and every single
> individual that wants to use those needs to extract those from their
> system.

Are those blobs loaded by the mainline kernel? If so, it would be the
same situation as I'm proposing here I believe.

> All of that seems just a legal matter, and IANAL ...

It is.

[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/about/#signed-off-by-requirement

Karel