On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Emmanuel Grumbach <egrumbach@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> We have released a new firmware for 3160 and for 7260 Intel devices.
>>> This firmware includes the neww APIs we have been implementing for a while now.
>>> We have here bug fixes along with better power save and P2P support.
>>> Anyone who wants to use this firmware must have 3.13 at least.
>>> The new file name is iwlwifi-{7260,3160}-8.ucode.
>>> Just copy the file into /lib/firmware - if the driver / kernel
>>> supports the new firmware, it will load the new one. If not,
>>> iwlwifi-{7260,3160}-7.ucode will be loaded and everything should work
>>> just fine.
>>>
>>> The firmware for 7260 is available at [1] and for 3160 at [2].
>>> I encourage people running 3.13 and up to take the new firmware and
>>> report issues.
>>> The new firmware's version is 22.15.8.0:
>>>
>>> $ dmesg | grep loaded\ firmware
>>> [ 8871.825758] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: loaded firmware version 22.15.8.0
>>> op_mode iwlmvm
>>>
>>> [1] - http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/iwlwifi?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=iwlwifi-7260-ucode-22.15.8.0.tgz
>>> [2] - http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/iwlwifi?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=iwlwifi-3160-ucode-22.15.8.0.tgz
>>>
>>
>> Shouldn't such stuff also go to the linux-firmware-folks?
>>
>
> It will - don't worry. I already have a pull request pending to
> linux-firmware anyway.
> I'll add that new firmware to my fork of linux-firmware [1] tonight.
>
Good.
For future announces like this one you can CC them?
- Sedat -
> [1] - https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/egrumbach/linux-firmware.git/
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