On Friday, December 23, 2016 6:12:35 PM CET igor.mitsyanko.os@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > From: Igor Mitsyanko <imitsyanko@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > QSR10G is Quantenna's 8x8, 160M, 11ac WiFi card. > > Signed-off-by: Kamlesh Rath <krath@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Sergey Matyukevich <smatyukevich@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Avinash Patil <avinashp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Igor Mitsyanko <igor.mitsyanko.os@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > This is an RFC patch that we sent to linux-wireless mailing list a while ago, > and it spawned a discussion regarding whether GPL sources has to be submitted > together with this firmware. We would like to clarify with linux-firmware maintainers > to understnad what should be our actions to allow this to be accepted. > - firmware contains GPL components; > - LICENCE file states that sources for GPL components will be provided on request > to oslegal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > There was an opinion that it is not enough: precedent case like this with carl9170 > firmware was resolved by submitting GPL sources into linux-firmware repository > itself. The ar9170-usb firmware was released as GPL v2.0 from the get-go. <http://git.sipsolutions.net/ar9170-fw.git/commit/GPL?id=2e3574ce10c74a82047a06b046855de14d969948> And this was never a problem. What is THE PROBLEM though: "if all the patches from ar9170fw to carl9170fw and beyond (i.e new versions) have to be added to linux-firmware.git." Or not. That's why there was never a update to the carl9170fw. So be prepared for this scenario too. > Does the same applies to qsr10g firmware? > > The SDK that we use to build it is quite heavy (> 100MB, but with toolchain). > Maybe we can take another approach to place SDK separately on Quantenna website > (as a compressed archive), and add a link in linux-firmware? Yes, I would like to know this as well. Regards, Christian
