On Tue, 06 Jun 2023 09:46:53 +0200 daven...@tuxfamily.org wrote: > Hello > > On 2023-06-05 22:49, Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> I believe that there are at least some 11ac cards supported by the > >> vanilla kernel and open source firmware: > >> > >> https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath10k > >> https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath10k/firmware > > > > Oh so the Free ath10k firmwares have now grown support for 11ac? > > Someone should tell Purism, because they still sell their Librem mini > > with an ath9k 11n card and the reason is/was that it's the best > > they could find without resorting to a proprietary blob :-( > > > I don't see any info supporting that ath10k firmware is free. The repo
Mea culpa. I had inferred from the fact that the firmware was available from kernel.org and GitHub that it was free software, but that was apparently an unwarranted assumption and I seem to have been mistaken. Debian packages ath10k firmware in the package "firmware-atheros", under "firmware-nonfree". I apologize for the misinformation. > mentionned in the ath10k wiki.kernel.org page¹, contains mainly (only? > I didn't clone it to automatically check filetype of every single file > in each (sub)directory) proprietary blobs, You're right - I can't find any source files. > And the licence² is cleanly a proprietary licence. The licence even > prohibits reverse engineering, while in Europe, reverse-engineering > **for interoperability purposes only** is **legally permitted**. ³. > > 1. https://github.com/kvalo/ath10k-firmware/ > 2. > https://github.com/kvalo/ath10k-firmware/blob/master/LICENSE.qca_firmware > 3. Article 6 of Directive 2009/24/EC of the European Parliament and of > the Council of 23 April 2009 on the legal protection of computer > programs : > https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX%3A32009L0024 > > Stefan -- Celejar
