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Re: [PATCH v4] qtnfmac: announcement of new FullMAC driver for Quantenna chipsets

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Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>> 1. Modify cfg80211 driver patch to introduce ability to boot from
>> card's internal flash rather then over PCIe only. This will hopefully
>> unblock  driver itself.
>
> This is good, and I think that'll be OK for the driver.

I'm thinking the same.

>> 2. Work internally to provide access to SDK used to build firmware on
>> a public server, that has to be accessible for two years. Then submit
>> firmware to linux-firmware again.
>
> I'm not sure this will work, since it would fall on anyone
> redistributing to ensure it's still there after *they* distribute it,
> so anyone who has the linux-firmware repo... That's why it's most
> practical to simply combine the two, although that's not really the
> case here.

How can we find a solution to this? We already one another driver with a
similar problem with sources and I guess more to come. Should we bring
this up in TAB?

https://www.linuxfoundation.org/projects/linux/tab

-- 
Kalle Valo




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