Free Software replacement for ath10k chipsets' firmware

Ben Greear greearb at candelatech.com
Fri Aug 26 08:56:32 PDT 2016


I consider it virtually impossible.  Most folks that could help you are
under NDA, and regardless it would be a huge task.

Better to hope that someday QCA gets tired of fixing and refixing
(and ignoring) the bugs themselves and opens the firmware.

Thank,
Ben

On 08/26/2016 12:12 AM, Raj Joshi wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> Thanks for bringing this up. It would be immensely useful to (re)gain
> control over all the PHY-MAC of QCA chips :)
>
> However, I am as clueless as you about getting started and about the
> quantum of effort required. It would be great to receive some
> pointers, if anyone has any clue.
>
> Thanks,
> Raj
>
> On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 12:16 AM, David Rabel <David.Rabel at noresoft.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi together,
>>
>> is anyone here working on or interested in writing a Free Software
>> replacement for any of the ath10k chipset's firmware?
>>
>> I want to work on this, but unfortunately it is very hard to find any
>> information on this topic on the Internet. Actually it is very hard to
>> find information about the chipsets in general.
>>
>> So if anyone is interested in working on this or wants to contribute
>> some knowledge, please let me know.
>>
>> Yours
>>    David
>>
>>
>>
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