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Subject: Re: New staging repos for ath1*k firmware
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To: Sebastian Gottschall <s.gottschall@dd-wrt.com>,
        Kalle Valo
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On 3/9/2024 9:58 AM, Sebastian Gottschall wrote:
> 
> 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

Kalle & I are just the conduit, but I've relayed this thread to the folks
responsible for feeding us the firmware releases.

/jeff