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From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>
To: Robert Marko <robert.marko@sartura.hr>
Cc: Jeff Johnson <quic_jjohnson@quicinc.com>,  ath10k
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Subject: Re: New staging repos for ath1*k firmware
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	<CA+HBbNFQ+25u_PK2j3vYtiCZwv+shVAVeAHKqQCwhyCopORt4Q@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2024 18:49:17 +0200
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	(Robert Marko's message of "Thu, 7 Mar 2024 09:39:26 +0100")
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Robert Marko <robert.marko@sartura.hr> writes:

> On Wed, Mar 6, 2024 at 8:23=E2=80=AFPM Jeff Johnson <quic_jjohnson@quicin=
c.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Historically, prior to being incorporated into the linux-firmware
>> project, firmware for kernel.org ath1*k drivers has been first published
>> to Kalle's GitHub:
>> https://github.com/kvalo/ath10k-firmware
>> https://github.com/kvalo/ath11k-firmware
>> (ath12k firmware was pushed to the ath11k-firmware repo on a temporary
>> basis in anticipation of this move)
>>
>> But in order to have repos with multiple maintainers, as well as to have
>> a hosting platform with more control, we have moved to CodeLinaro:
>> https://git.codelinaro.org/clo/ath-firmware/ath10k-firmware
>> https://git.codelinaro.org/clo/ath-firmware/ath11k-firmware
>> https://git.codelinaro.org/clo/ath-firmware/ath12k-firmware
>>
>> Note that most people should not care about this -- normally you should
>> use the firmware that is in the official linux-firmware repo:
>> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/
>>
>> You should only need to access the staging repos if you need a previous
>> version to work around an issue, or if you are testing new firmware that
>> is supposed to fix a problem that you've reported.
>>
>> Please let Kalle & I know if you have any issues with these new repos!
>
> Can I please ask for IPQ6018 firmware to be updated to 2.9.0.1 as well?
>
> We have added IPQ6018 support to OpenWrt but we are forced to use the old=
 2.4
> firmware since anything newer is crashing on IPQ6018, we had the same iss=
ue on
> IPQ8074 but it was fixed with 2.9.0.1 firmware.
>
> Even for IPQ8074, there is newer 2.9.0.1 firmware that is only
> available as part of
> QSDK and the community would benefit from being able to use it.

We are working on getting the AP chipset firmwares updated but
unfortunately no news yet.

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