Hi Devin, Am 21.03.2014 18:38, schrieb Devin Heitmueller: > 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 Ok, so you've already asked them for a xc2028/3028 firmware redistribution permission, but (in opposition to the xc5000) they didn't grant it ? Too bad. :-( The xc2028/3028 is used in so many devices and playing manual firmware extraction games sucks. A too big obstacle for many users (if they even find out that their device isn't working due to missing firmware)...
Regards, Frank > 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 > > -- 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
