New staging repos for ath1*k firmware

[Robert Marko]

On Wed, Mar 13, 2024 at 8:32 PM Jeff Johnson <quic_jjohnson at quicinc.com> wrote:
>
> On 3/9/2024 9:58 AM, Sebastian Gottschall wrote:
> >
> > Am 07.03.2024 um 17:49 schrieb Kalle Valo:
> >> Robert Marko <robert.marko at sartura.hr> writes:
> >>
> >>> On Wed, Mar 6, 2024 at 8:23 PM Jeff Johnson <quic_jjohnson at quicinc.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Historically, prior to being incorporated into the linux-firmware
> >>>> project, firmware for kernel.org ath1*k drivers has been first published
> >>>> to Kalle's GitHub:
> >>>> https://github.com/kvalo/ath10k-firmware
> >>>> https://github.com/kvalo/ath11k-firmware
> >>>> (ath12k firmware was pushed to the ath11k-firmware repo on a temporary
> >>>> basis in anticipation of this move)
> >>>>
> >>>> But in order to have repos with multiple maintainers, as well as to have
> >>>> a hosting platform with more control, we have moved to CodeLinaro:
> >>>> https://git.codelinaro.org/clo/ath-firmware/ath10k-firmware
> >>>> https://git.codelinaro.org/clo/ath-firmware/ath11k-firmware
> >>>> https://git.codelinaro.org/clo/ath-firmware/ath12k-firmware
> >>>>
> >>>> Note that most people should not care about this -- normally you should
> >>>> use the firmware that is in the official linux-firmware repo:
> >>>> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/
> >>>>
> >>>> You should only need to access the staging repos if you need a previous
> >>>> version to work around an issue, or if you are testing new firmware that
> >>>> is supposed to fix a problem that you've reported.
> >>>>
> >>>> Please let Kalle & I know if you have any issues with these new repos!
> >>> Can I please ask for IPQ6018 firmware to be updated to 2.9.0.1 as well?
> >>>
> >>> We have added IPQ6018 support to OpenWrt but we are forced to use the old 2.4
> >>> firmware since anything newer is crashing on IPQ6018, we had the same issue on
> >>> IPQ8074 but it was fixed with 2.9.0.1 firmware.
> >>>
> >>> Even for IPQ8074, there is newer 2.9.0.1 firmware that is only
> >>> available as part of
> >>> QSDK and the community would benefit from being able to use it.
> >> We are working on getting the AP chipset firmwares updated but
> >> unfortunately no news yet.
> > why isnt qca releasing the latest firmwares at all. i mean we all know
> > that the qca networking tree contains way newer firmwares for all
> > chipsets since a long time
>
> Kalle & I are just the conduit, but I've relayed this thread to the folks
> responsible for feeding us the firmware releases.

Trust me,
the community knows that you are trying your best and a lot of things
are out of your control and we really appreciate that.

Regards,
Robert
>
> /jeff
>
>


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Robert Marko
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