Hello, Francesco, Francesco Dolcini, 2026-04-29T13:22:32+02:00: > On Wed, Apr 29, 2026 at 12:55:23PM +0200, Karel Balej wrote: >> without the firmware being in linux-firmware? > > What's the license of this firmware? Am I wrong saying that if > the license allows it, you could just send a patch to have it integrated > to the linux-firmware repository? Is there any history or documentation > on the topic (please apologize if this is a well known topic, just > answer RTFM if this is the case).
that's one of the issues, the license is not specified explicitly anywhere as far as I know. Likely it is the same as the other Marvell blobs already in linux-firmware (the mrvl directory), but we don't know for sure. As far as I know, even if I was to submit the firmware myself, it would still require a sign-off from someone from NXP [1]. > I read a couple of days ago that for example the firmwares for the > various Apple arm64 laptop cannot be redistributed and every single > individual that wants to use those needs to extract those from their > system. Are those blobs loaded by the mainline kernel? If so, it would be the same situation as I'm proposing here I believe. > All of that seems just a legal matter, and IANAL ... It is. [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/about/#signed-off-by-requirement Karel
