On Wed, 2017-05-24 at 10:15 +0200, Sedat Dilek wrote:
> On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 9:57 AM, Luca Coelho <l...@coelho.fi> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2017-05-24 at 09:41 +0200, Sedat Dilek wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > 
> > Hi Sedat,
> > 
> > 
> > > I am seeing the below/following in my logs today.
> > > My AP is a Lenovo Moto-Z with LTE support.
> > > 
> > > Can you comment on this?
> > > Is this a "buggy" firmware and a new firmware around?
> > 
> > Looks like a buggy firmware, but unfortunately we don't have a newer
> > firmware with a fix for this.
> > 
> > 
> > > My kernel-config and full dmesg are attached.
> > > 
> > > If you need further informations, please let me know.
> > > 
> > > Hope this helps.
> > > 
> > > Regards,
> > > - Sedat -
> > > 
> > > P.S.: Excerpts from my dmesg-log.
> > > 
> > > [   16.708016] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: Detected Intel(R) Centrino(R)
> > > Advanced-N 6230 AGN, REV=0xB0
> > 
> > This is a really old NIC (6+ years old) and unfortunately we can't
> > provide firmware fixes for it anymore.
> > 
> > Hopefully the recovery flow in the driver recovers the connectivity and
> > everything continues working fine.
> > 
> 
> Thanks for the fast reply.
> 
> Intel was(?) a good choice is my conclusion after getting no more
> replies/fixes for my SandyBridge-GPU from intel-gfx guys.
> This Samsung Ultrabook is 5 years young.
> I can understand that fixing a 6 years old NIC is not your prio #1.
> 
> As an example, there is no vulkan support for my GPU, so it's time for a 
> change?
> 
> No glue if other hardware vendors have better support.

We still do our best effort to fix driver bugs for these old NICs, but
unfortunately fixing the FW is a much more complicated issue and there's
nothing we can do. :(

Regarding the GPU stuff, I really can't comment, since I don't know much
about it.

--
Cheers,
Luca.

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