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From: David Lin <dlin@marvell.com>
To: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>,
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Subject: RE: [PATCH v5] Add new mac80211 driver mwlwifi.
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 02:05:24 +0000
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> 
> Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org> writes:
> 
> > Chor Teck Law <ctlaw@marvell.com> writes:
> >
> >> But for different generation of future chipsets/new technology, when
> >> the hardware no longer permit us to use same driver, we will have to
> >> re-evaluate our options. We cannot guarantee something way out into
> >> the future.
> >
> > Yeah, that's understandable. But the community really dislikes having
> > duplicated code/functionality, so please keep this in mind.
> >
> > If you can submit the next version soon we could try to get this
> > driver to 4.4. We have few more weeks.
> 
> I forgot to ask about the firmware image for this driver. Is that available in
> linux-firmware.git?
>

I had already sent firmware patch for linux-firmware.git. However, it looks like it had not yet been added to linux-firmware.git. After sending out Patch v7, I will check to see if this patch can be added to linux-firmware.git.

> --
> Kalle Valo

Thanks,
David

From: David Lin <dlin@...>
Subject: [PATCH] Add FW binary used by mwlwifi driver.
Newsgroups: gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general
Date: 2015-08-22 03:54:38 GMT (5 weeks, 3 days, 22 hours and 7 minutes ago)
Signed-off-by: David Lin <dlin-eYqpPyKDWXRBDgjK7y7TUQ <at> public.gmane.org>
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 WHENCE              |  12 ++++++++++++
 mwlwifi/88W8864.bin | Bin 0 -> 116356 bytes
 mwlwifi/88W8897.bin | Bin 0 -> 489084 bytes
 3 files changed, 12 insertions(+)
 mode change 100644 => 100755 WHENCE
 create mode 100755 mwlwifi/88W8864.bin
 create mode 100755 mwlwifi/88W8897.bin