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Subject: Re: New staging repos for ath1*k firmware
To: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>, Robert Marko <robert.marko@sartura.hr>
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Am 07.03.2024 um 17:49 schrieb Kalle Valo:
> Robert Marko <robert.marko@sartura.hr> writes:
>
>> On Wed, Mar 6, 2024 at 8:23 PM Jeff Johnson <quic_jjohnson@quicinc.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 issue 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.
why isnt qca releasing the latest firmwares at all. i mean we all know 
that the qca networking tree contains way newer firmwares for all 
chipsets since a long time

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