Re: xc2038/3028 firmware

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Hi Frank,

I specifically asked for and received permission from
Xceive/CrestaTech to make the xc5000 firmware freely redistributable.
They were unwilling to entertain that though for the xc2028/3028 as
they considered it a long deprecated product.

In order to include firmware blobs in linux-firmware, there needs to
be an actual license legally permitting redistribution - we don't have
that for the 2028/3028.

In general CrestaTech have been extremely cooperative with the Linux
community, especially in recent years.  However in this case they just
couldn't justify the effort to do the paperwork for a chip that they
stopped shipping years ago.

Devin

On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 1:25 PM, Frank Schäfer
<fschaefer.oss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> are there any reasons why the xc2028/3028 firmware files are not
> included in the linux-firmware tree ?
> The xc5000 firmware is already there, so it seems Xceive|has nothing
> against| redistribution of their firmware... ?!
>
> Regards,
> Frank
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