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Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2011 12:10:49 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Ralink 3090 must load rt3090.bin firmware, not rt2860.bin.
From: Ivo Van Doorn <ivdoorn@gmail.com>
To: "Catalin(ux) M. BOIE" <catab@embedromix.ro>
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Hi,

> Larry, Ivo, thank you for your time.
>
> rt3090.bin comes with linux-firmware package in my Fedora 14.
> In Fedora 15 Beta seems to be the same version (20110304).
> So, they are not up-to-date.

There is already a discussion on linux-wireless regarding this.
Unfortunately all previous attempts to upgrade the firmware seems to
have failed.
Last week a new patch was send, so hopefully that will be applied.

> The plan:
> 1. Remove rt3090.bin from linux-firmware because is confusing.
> 2. Update linux-firmware's rt2860.bin to Larry's (attached) version.

I agree with 1, but unfortunately the policy of linux-firmware is that
the firmware cannot be removed when a driver exists which uses it
(regardless of the presence of that driver inside the latest
linux-kernel release).

I also agree with 2, but that apparently is quite hard. Multiple people
have send patches, I hope that the last attempt of last week will be
accepted and applied.

Ivo