Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> writes: > On Wed, 2016-04-20 at 20:51 +0200, Bjørn Mork wrote: >> Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> writes: >> >> > >> > Our upstream is linux-firmware.git, not a hundred vendor web sites. >> > Frankly I'm quite sick of the iwlwifi maintainers thinking their >> > firmware is special and should be distributed differently from every. >> Huh? I always though they sent a pull request whenever they felt a new >> update was "ready". Like this: >> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/149963 > [...] > > But apparently the firmware sometimes isn't 'ready' until *after* the > previous major version reaches end of life. > > If all versions of firmware are either EOL or beta, Intel is > effectively disclaiming support for the affected hardware.
Well, yes, that is confusing. I cannot imagine that it was their intention. FWIW, the current driver still supports firmwares back to "13" for the 7260: /* Highest firmware API version supported */ #define IWL7260_UCODE_API_MAX 17 #define IWL7265_UCODE_API_MAX 17 #define IWL7265D_UCODE_API_MAX 21 #define IWL3168_UCODE_API_MAX 21 /* Oldest version we won't warn about */ #define IWL7260_UCODE_API_OK 13 #define IWL7265_UCODE_API_OK 13 #define IWL7265D_UCODE_API_OK 13 #define IWL3168_UCODE_API_OK 20 /* Lowest firmware API version supported */ #define IWL7260_UCODE_API_MIN 13 #define IWL7265_UCODE_API_MIN 13 #define IWL7265D_UCODE_API_MIN 13 #define IWL3168_UCODE_API_MIN 20 That is the authoritative source wrt "support". Bjørn
