[add more interested parties to cc] On Thu, Jun 06, 2024 at 12:18:39PM +0200, Francesco Dolcini wrote: > On Wed, Jun 05, 2024 at 05:47:09PM +0200, Andreas Kemnade wrote: > > But that is all legalese and I am not a lawyer... Best is of course > > something officially added from NXP. No idea if it can be done > > otherwise. How to make NXP add something? > > Would it be possible for you to get these firmware files added to the > official linux-firmware git repo? > > I am not using sd8987 myself, from what I read in the thread probably > some file name would need to be corrected (I would say in the mwifiex > driver). I'd appreciate if NXP could additionally greenlight addition of: https://github.com/nxp-imx/imx-firmware/blob/lf-6.6.3_1.0.0/nxp/FwImage_IW416_SD/sdiouartiw416_combo_v0.bin https://github.com/nxp-imx/imx-firmware/blob/lf-6.6.3_1.0.0/nxp/FwImage_IW416_SD/uartiw416_bt_v0.bin ...to the linux-firmware repo. They're necessary for SD8978 (aka IW416), which has been supported by mwifiex since commit bba047f15851 ("wifi: mwifiex: Support SD8978 chipset"). Back in the day when I submitted that commit, I concurrently reached out to NXP. Sherry Sun kindly responded that Dinesh Phatak and Pankaj Razdan need to confirm upstreaming into linux-firmware (both +cc). The problem is that mwifiex firmware originating from https://github.com/NXP/mwifiex-firmware/ is available under a simple 3-clause licence, but only contains outdated firmware for older chips. More recent firmware available from https://github.com/nxp-imx/imx-firmware seems to be distributed under different and much longer licensing terms: https://github.com/nxp-imx/imx-firmware/blob/lf-6.6.3_1.0.0/LICENSE.txt So I think we need confirmation from NXP before we can add the firmware to the linux-firmware repo. Thanks, Lukas
