From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from vinatta.cz (vinatta.cz [37.205.8.231]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 39AE83FBEC2; Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:20:52 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=37.205.8.231 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1777468866; cv=none; b=d0hKgX3Iv80FDr3i0E6TF4AnRlNvy4y9EtCMKy/2/Uj7GqzqzEdeSjMLugddMbrjHPgiVeZtm9svRAkXnwBSnAKWVlWudoyWQiaI8J1bJfo60QelXB6w2XHP+LAJbGE27nSj9um2dW0MgyYjR1ZFI2njbvFGbdOUfaLnbDMyYCk= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1777468866; c=relaxed/simple; bh=xqRqdqb9cql00b3xqlZ9Qf54W2TCp7JZjtSRq3okoys=; h=Mime-Version:Content-Type:Date:Message-Id:Cc:Subject:To:From: References:In-Reply-To; b=l1t8UcFwRIgWJP9/HjfE1rUWx+3HZBlHFONSca6gCkj92EEutu8TrXvKVhsF2aHyS6N4kuM6LNsJBkQW1mW58KvhrNAMb1kBV1KtJwS0pdQ5gvxgjSGso1p5vEhizqdO+v2A1rHwqYb/pGuHJ+FUd5Ez27Dz+0hOactjYwjnrco= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=fail (p=none dis=none) header.from=matfyz.cz; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=vinatta.cz; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=vinatta.cz header.i=@vinatta.cz header.b=IyM+Dn02; arc=none smtp.client-ip=37.205.8.231 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=fail (p=none dis=none) header.from=matfyz.cz Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=vinatta.cz Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=vinatta.cz header.i=@vinatta.cz header.b="IyM+Dn02" DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha256; bh=xqRqdqb9cql00b3xqlZ9Qf54W2TCp7JZjtSRq3okoys=; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=vinatta.cz; h=Subject:Subject:Sender:To:To:Cc:Cc:From:From:Date:Date:MIME-Version:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Reply-To:In-Reply-To:In-Reply-To:Message-Id:Message-Id:References:References:Autocrypt:Openpgp; i=@vinatta.cz; s=default; t=1777468828; v=1; x=1777900828; b=IyM+Dn02OPnovfHH7qNxVHpRW3lq/vYVi8gIZcW4AH7D2xne9s+wetiIl+wxpJE6OZFyTOkm RguW5ARTHy3psH4xEHq1wSvuu9pVbbBnDs7WkbnysjUgPn2Zn3tjG/vwTwPw6Jzk8QNkZajEwln bEnKo/NHeCiP3dxeqdMa/VD2iYAHYg6eNe9oGnLxh+poF0IoDqoQFGNVA00lFNXMxn6Ic/jt0CK fy6UDDHUSrkQHQ1sajzCK6X3Ek3xAf3QWRyeapcFtUvNGmSxGuNDfAOtcZFgdBCEUkHi/u1pIh5 7MIEt8s/hY14nWI79pi1zTXz57/0aOCSnp6eLVR7s/6cQ== Received: by vinatta.cz (envelope-sender ) with ESMTPS id 2b91500b; Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:20:28 +0200 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:20:28 +0200 Message-Id: Cc: "Brian Norris" , "Johannes Berg" , "Rob Herring" , "Krzysztof Kozlowski" , "Conor Dooley" , =?utf-8?q?Duje_Mihanovi=C4=87?= , "Andrew Lunn" , "Gregory Clement" , "Sebastian Hesselbarth" , "Ulf Hansson" , "Frank Li" , , , , , , <~postmarketos/upstreaming@lists.sr.ht>, , "Jeff Chen" , "Peng Fan" , Subject: Re: [DONOTAPPLY RFC PATCH v2 0/4] WiFi support for samsung,coreprimevelte To: "Francesco Dolcini" From: "Karel Balej" References: <20251026182602.26464-1-balejk@matfyz.cz> <20260429112232.GD17033@francesco-nb> In-Reply-To: <20260429112232.GD17033@francesco-nb> 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