Hi Frank, I specifically asked for and received permission from Xceive/CrestaTech to make the xc5000 firmware freely redistributable. They were unwilling to entertain that though for the xc2028/3028 as they considered it a long deprecated product.
In order to include firmware blobs in linux-firmware, there needs to be an actual license legally permitting redistribution - we don't have that for the 2028/3028. In general CrestaTech have been extremely cooperative with the Linux community, especially in recent years. However in this case they just couldn't justify the effort to do the paperwork for a chip that they stopped shipping years ago. Devin On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 1:25 PM, Frank Schäfer <fschaefer....@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > are there any reasons why the xc2028/3028 firmware files are not > included in the linux-firmware tree ? > The xc5000 firmware is already there, so it seems Xceive|has nothing > against| redistribution of their firmware... ?! > > Regards, > Frank > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in > the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- Devin J. Heitmueller - Kernel Labs http://www.kernellabs.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
