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Robert Marko <robert.marko@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Wed, Mar 6, 2024 at 8:23 PM Jeff Johnson <quic_jjohnson@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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.

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