[Bug 200509] Re: iwl4965: Microcode SW error detected. Restarting 0x2000000

[Philipp Ehses]

Hi Steve,

sorry, I wasn't aware of the licensing issue.

The firmware comes from openSuSE 11.1. I did a quick search and found
out that they are included in the following (rpm) packages:

iwl3945-ucode
iwl4965-ucode
iwl5000-ucode

zypper info returns this (shortened)::

Name: iwl3945-ucode
Version: 15.28.1.8-1.7

Name: iwl4965-ucode
Version: 228.57.2.23-1.1.1

Name: iwl5000-ucode
Version: 5.4.A.11-2.9


I had a quick look in the README and LICENSE files which come with the firmware, and it seems that redistribution is allowed as long as the binaries are unchanged and the license files are attached (which I can easily provide, or we can just get the rpm packages which include them as well). Here's an excerpt:

Redistribution.  Redistribution and use in binary form, without
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are
met:

* Redistributions must reproduce the above copyright notice and the
  following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials
  provided with the distribution.
* Neither the name of Intel Corporation nor the names of its suppliers
  may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software
  without specific prior written permission.
* No reverse engineering, decompilation, or disassembly of this software
  is permitted.

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iwl4965: Microcode SW error detected.  Restarting 0x2000000
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