On Monday, 26 February 2024 15:50:44 CET Felix Fietkau wrote: [...] >> The Qualcomm bulletin[1] says "Patches are being actively > > shared with OEMs". > > > > Were these bugfixes made available for OpenWRT? Is there an established > > procedure for such cases, where closed-source firmware gets bugfixes? [...] > > [1] > > https://docs.qualcomm.com/product/publicresources/securitybulletin/ december-2023-bulletin.html > > The fixes were not shared with OpenWrt. Qualcomm does not care about > OpenWrt support for their platforms.
I've asked (using their qualcomm-cdmatech-support portal) for an official release of their WiFi firmware with all gathered bugfixes via linux-firmware.git. I got statements that the ath10k firmware is no longer supported + ath11k firmware is not developed further. But for some of them it is possible to request a release of the firmwares via Kalle's repositories. But also that Kalle's repositories are now replaced. Which seems to be confirmed by Kalle's statement [1] regarding the firmware-N.bin files on ath...@lists.infradead.org . The new positions for firmware files were not revealed but I found a couple of places [2,3,4,5] in my search. And to the request to get the latest versions released via linux-firmware.git (or maybe even only in Kalle's repositories), I got (some weeks ago) the answer "Let me check with our team.". It is rather hard to make statements about Qualcomm - simply because it is not just a single person and I have no idea about the internal structures. But it doesn't seem to be the highest priority (for the "internal team"?) to make fixes available for everyone. I still hope that it is just delayed due to some unfortunate circumstances. But this is just the current state. Kind regards, Sven [1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/87bk8inesm....@kernel.org [2] https://git.codelinaro.org/clo/ath-firmware/ath10k-firmware [3] https://git.codelinaro.org/clo/ath-firmware/ath11k-firmware [4] https://git.codelinaro.org/clo/ath-firmware/ath12k-firmware [5] https://github.com/quic/upstream-wifi-fw
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