On 3/9/2024 9:58 AM, Sebastian Gottschall wrote: > > Am 07.03.2024 um 17:49 schrieb Kalle Valo: >> 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. > why isnt qca releasing the latest firmwares at all. i mean we all know > that the qca networking tree contains way newer firmwares for all > chipsets since a long time Kalle & I are just the conduit, but I've relayed this thread to the folks responsible for feeding us the firmware releases. /jeff
