Question about WCN6855 firmware versions

[jloretto70]

That's very helpful. Thank you Kalle!

------- Original Message -------
On Tuesday, October 11th, 2022 at 2:57 AM, Kalle Valo <kvalo at kernel.org> wrote:


> jloretto70 jloretto70 at proton.me writes:
> 
> > I have a WCN6855 (hw2.1) card and am currently using the latest
> > firmware files from the kernel.org repo which are labeled 3.6510.9 in
> > the commit message. I see that there is a more recent set of files
> > labeled 3.6510.16 in the GitHub repo for this card. Are these firmware
> > files safe to use or is the best practice to wait until they land in
> > the official kernel.org repo?
> 
> 
> For the end users I recommend using the ath11k firmware files from the
> official linux-firmware unless you have a specific reason to update
> (reporting a bug etc). That way there's more testing by the developers
> before you get access to it.
> 
> I try update latest ath11k-firmware releases to linux-firmware roughly
> every three months, so it really comes down to if you want run bleeding
> edge or not.
> 
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