FYI: open-ath9k-htc-firmware

2013-03-12 Thread Hideki Yamane
Hi, One of my floss friend noticed to me that phoronix reports Atheros Publishes Open-Source WiFi Firmware http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_itempx=MTMyNTY Source is https://github.com/qca/open-ath9k-htc-firmware and its license seems to be DFSG-free one. Now Debian provides it

Re: FYI: open-ath9k-htc-firmware

2013-03-12 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 11:48:44PM +0900, Hideki Yamane wrote: Hi, One of my floss friend noticed to me that phoronix reports Atheros Publishes Open-Source WiFi Firmware http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_itempx=MTMyNTY Source is https://github.com/qca/open-ath9k-htc-firmware

Re: FYI: open-ath9k-htc-firmware

2013-03-12 Thread Hideki Yamane
On Tue, 12 Mar 2013 19:15:20 + Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: This should be added to the linux-firmware.git repository and then to our firmware-free source package. Perhaps you could talk to the Atheros developers and you or they could prepare a patch for linux-firmware.git?

Re: FYI: open-ath9k-htc-firmware

2013-03-12 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2013-03-13 at 11:13 +0900, Hideki Yamane wrote: On Tue, 12 Mar 2013 19:15:20 + Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: This should be added to the linux-firmware.git repository and then to our firmware-free source package. Perhaps you could talk to the Atheros developers and

Re: FYI: open-ath9k-htc-firmware

2013-03-12 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 10:13 AM, Hideki Yamane wrote: Okay, but they are using patched gcc and binutils for build it. So I guess, first it should be merged to upstream gcc/binutils, then be added to firmware git repo, right? No, that is not how the firmware-free source package works. It

Re: FYI: open-ath9k-htc-firmware

2013-03-12 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2013-03-13 at 10:27 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 10:13 AM, Hideki Yamane wrote: Okay, but they are using patched gcc and binutils for build it. So I guess, first it should be merged to upstream gcc/binutils, then be added to firmware git repo, right? No,