[Xenial][Pull] Update new Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 firmware
Seth Forshee
seth.forshee at canonical.com
Wed Sep 14 12:18:38 UTC 2016
On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 11:07:23AM +0800, Phidias Chiang wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 07:21:27AM -0500, Seth Forshee wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 04:18:05PM +0800, Phidias Chiang wrote:
> > > Firmware for this card isn't in the current linux-firmware package.
> > > Latest upstream firmware is also tested but doesn't work either.
> > >
> > > Qualcomm has upstreamed a new firmware to support this module. It has
> > > been tested and solve the issue.
> >
> > What repository did you cherry pick the commit from? It wasn't upstream,
> > so we need to add the url to the changelog (having the sha-1 without
> > knowing what repo it came from isn't very useful).
> >
> > I'm assuming we should add this firmware to yakkety as well?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Seth
>
> That's weird, because the commit is from upstream, please refer to this:
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/commit/?id=7534e191256629a20c02e04d5f6d0439c48de80a
> Did I mess something up?
You had said that the latest upstream firmware doesn't work, and that
led me to believe the commit came from elsewhere. If it is upstream then
everything is fine.
> And yes this should add to yakkety as well I believe.
I'll rebase yakkety on upstream which will pull in that commit.
Thanks,
Seth
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