From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752430AbZHSRjN (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:39:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751357AbZHSRjN (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:39:13 -0400 Received: from mtaout03-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.49]:27162 "EHLO mtaout03-winn.ispmail.ntl.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751202AbZHSRjM (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:39:12 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging/wlan-ng: Convert firmware loading to load binary ihex format From: Karl Relton To: Greg KH Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20090819163439.GA3094@kroah.com> References: <1250665599.4545.3.camel@localhost> <20090819154437.GA729@kroah.com> <1250698851.4323.9.camel@localhost> <20090819163439.GA3094@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 18:39:09 +0100 Message-Id: <1250703549.4323.16.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.26.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Cloudmark-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=77gSv6d_8poA:10 a=TfPwwAdzkwpWz82hI0AA:9 a=Ah3Eu6E3pTg4yGMc9o8A:7 a=RSHe6NtUqmBHww33yxd6-MOfglYA:4 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2009-08-19 at 09:34 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 05:20:51PM +0100, Karl Relton wrote: > > I plan to give the various distributions a utility to pre-compile the > > firmware. It is based on ihex2fw.c. > > > > I don't think the firmware will ever be accepted into linux-firmware > > because the original licensing cannot be established. > > Have you asked the company? > Where is the firmware at today? > At some point in the past the owner was Conexant, but we are not sure they still own in. Some efforts to track down which company now owns this firmware, and who the contact within that company would be, have been made but have not been successful. The firmware is downloadable from the linux-wlan-ng project. I have been liasing with the maintainer in that project, who has tried to help as far as he could. Karl