Return-path: Received: from mail-wi0-f174.google.com ([209.85.212.174]:33053 "EHLO mail-wi0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751264Ab3DUXXB (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Apr 2013 19:23:01 -0400 Received: by mail-wi0-f174.google.com with SMTP id m6so3395025wiv.1 for ; Sun, 21 Apr 2013 16:23:00 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <87li8k0yu1.fsf@kamboji.qca.qualcomm.com> <20130415204030.51f20f43@m4a785t-m.gnutoo.workgroup> From: Julian Calaby Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 09:22:40 +1000 Message-ID: (sfid-20130422_012324_499619_05F320BF) Subject: Re: ath10k: mac80211 driver for QCA9880 To: Edward Cc: linux-wireless Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi Edward, On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 10:59 PM, Edward wrote: > Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli writes: >> On Mon, 15 Apr 2013 15:20:54 +0300 >> Kalle Valo wrote: >> >The biggest difference is that there's now firmware running on the >> >chip. >> Will the firmware be released as free software at some point? > > Does it matter? The firmware is just a binary logic black box. It's not > likely to even see more than a handful of revisions after the actual > products hit the market. I believe the question was asked as Atheros / Qualcomm has a history of releasing firmware for their devices, i.e. the ar9170 and ar7010 / ar9271 chips, I believe Denis was wondering if this practise would continue. > As long as the driver remains open I don't see any problems with the > open-driver-closed-firmware combination. Intel and Ralink has adopted this > practice to great success, and I don't see any reason why Atheros can't do > the same. I don't believe anyone has problems with things being done this way, we'd just like to know if there's a release scheduled. Thanks, -- Julian Calaby Email: julian.calaby@gmail.com Profile: http://www.google.com/profiles/julian.calaby/ .Plan: http://sites.google.com/site/juliancalaby/