[PATCH RFC] aquantia-firmware: package MediaTek's Aquantia AQR113C firmware

[Rafał Miłecki]

On 5.02.2024 15:15, Robert Marko wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Feb 2024 at 14:23, Rafał Miłecki <zajec5 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> From: Rafał Miłecki <rafal at milecki.pl>
>>
>> Aquantia AQR113C is PHY that needs loading a firmware. Some devices may
>> have it stored on flash and some need filesystem to provide it.
>>
>> MediaTek holds its own AQR113C firmware file for its boards. Package it.
> 
> Hi Rafal, not going into details of this patch, but what is the
> license situation with
> redistributing the AQR firmware?

Good question. I don't know.

Cc linux-mediatek@
Can we get some licensing help, please?



Initial firmware file
Rhe-05.06-Candidate7-AQR_Mediatek_23B_StartOff_ID45623_VER36657.cld was
added in the commit:

commit 24ba51c5be18613127b2d8407b0223174624b130
Author: developer <developer at mediatek.com>
Date:   Tue Nov 15 11:22:46 2022 +0800

     [][kernel][mt7988][eth][Change AQR113C firmware download method to MDIO gangload]

     [Description]
     Change AQR113C firmware download method to MDIO gangload.

     If without this patch, AQR113C cannot boot from MDIO gangload.

     [Release-log]
     N/A


     Change-Id: Iddc29f5e1c73c772bcea9313938b6daccc10025a
     Reviewed-on: https://gerrit.mediatek.inc/c/openwrt/feeds/mtk_openwrt_feeds/+/6781059

with not licensing details.



Later there was a firmware update update handled by adding file:
Rhe-05.06-Candidate9-AQR_Mediatek_23B_P5_ID45824_LCLVER1.cld in the commit:

commit 405b1e31f924b97d379719fb39f0d28c0fac43a9
Author: developer <developer at mediatek.com>
Date:   Tue Mar 28 17:00:41 2023 +0800

     [][kernel][mt7988][eth][Fix AQR113C 5GBASE-T compliance test mode4 tone1 fail issue]

     [Description]
     Fix AQR113C 5GBASE-T compliance test mode4 tone1 fail issue by
     updating firmware version to
     Rhe-05.06-Candidate9-AQR_Mediatek_23B_P5_ID45824_LCLVER1.cld.

     If without this patch, AQR113C might not pass the 5GBASE-T mode4 tone1
     items for the compliance test.

     [Release-log]
     N/A


     Change-Id: I3b2c6e6cf1a6ba8183daa7e30110ff2c839c5989
     Reviewed-on: https://gerrit.mediatek.inc/c/openwrt/feeds/mtk_openwrt_feeds/+/7305781

but again with not licensing info.



I also can't find any readme file specifying licensing of those files.