On Wed, Mar 13, 2024 at 8:32 PM Jeff Johnson <quic_jjohn...@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.ma...@sartura.hr> writes: > >> > >>> On Wed, Mar 6, 2024 at 8:23 PM Jeff Johnson <quic_jjohn...@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 > > -- Robert Marko Staff Embedded Linux Engineer Sartura Ltd. Lendavska ulica 16a 10000 Zagreb, Croatia Email: robert.ma...@sartura.hr Web: www.sartura.hr
