+ ath11k, jeff Sven Eckelmann <s...@narfation.org> writes:
> 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. Yeah, the ath1?k-firmware.git repos are being moved to git.codelinaro.org and we will send an announcement once everything is ready. > 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. Thanks for letting me know, I was not aware any of this. Me and Jeff will investigate and get back to you. For others, here's a link to the thread in openwrt-devel: https://lists.openwrt.org/pipermail/openwrt-devel/2024-February/042341.html -- https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-wireless/list/ https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
