** Description changed:
+ SRU Justification:
+
+ [Impact]
+
+ Intel has only core102 PV firmware for AX211/BE211/BE213 on Intel
+ Wildcat Lake. While that's only supported by backport-iwlwifi-
+ dkms/release right now, we need to use it in linux-oem-6.17.
+
+ [Fix]
+
+ 1. for firmware, need to backport upstream commit b21b48725314
+ ("iwlwifi: add Bz/Wh FW for core102-56 release") to linux-
+ firmware/noble;
+
+ 2. for backport-iwlwifi, this depends on backport-iwlwifi fixes in bug
+ 2146804
+
+ [Test Plan]
+
+ Check wifi link availability with `ip` or `iw`.
+
+ [Where problems could occur]
+
+ backport-iwlwifi is not recommended whenever the in-tree module is
+ available and supports the equipped hardware.
+
+ With the latest mainline v7.0-rcX kernel, the supported iwlwifi CoreAPI
+ is c101, and expecting to have c102 until v7.1 is released. It follows,
+ to retire the use of backport-iwlwifi-dkms in linux-oem-6.17, the linux-
+ hwe-7.0 is not sufficient and an even later HWE kernel from Ubuntu 26.10
+ should be used. We're still seeking the possibilities to retire
+ backport-iwlwifi as soon as possible.
+
+ [Other Info]
+
+ Nominate for kernel linux-oem-6.17 only, because linux/resolute is
+ already compiled with backport-iwlwifi core103.
+
+ Nominate for linux-firmware/noble only, because the required firmware
+ blobs are already in linux-firmware/resolute.
+
+ ========== original bug report ==========
+
The PV firmware iwlwifi-bz-b0-wh-b0 for Intel BE211(WhP2)/BE213(SpP2) is
going to be released with firmware Core API 102, and that's only
available since mainline kernel v7.2 (currently core101 for v7.1-rc5).
By pulling backport-iwlwifi-dkms/resolute version >= 1:0~103 to linux-
oem-6.17 dkms-versions, we may use prebuilt linux-modules-iwlwifi to
support aforementioned wireless hardware with linux-oem-6.17 in Noble.
The proposed firmware are:
* BE201 (FmP2):
- iwlwifi-gl-c0-fm-c0-c102.ucode:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/commit/?id=9a9285ce9b440c4d0d6d9aeff181615d8052dfe7,
in upstream tag 20260221, in linux-firmware/r version
20260319.git217ca6e4-0ubuntu1, linux-firmware/n version
20240318.git3b128b60-0ubuntu2.25
- - iwlwifi-sc-a0-fm-c0-c101.ucode:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/commit/?id=0a041632c1564a6acf6d2b9ab7cbc64474a2c323,
in upstream tag 20260110, in linux-firmware/r version
20260319.git217ca6e4-0ubuntu1, linux-firmware/n version
20240318.git3b128b60-0ubuntu2.25
+ - iwlwifi-sc-a0-fm-c0-c101.ucode:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/commit/?id=0a041632c1564a6acf6d2b9ab7cbc64474a2c323,
in upstream tag 20260110, in linux-firmware/r version
20260319.git217ca6e4-0ubuntu1, linux-firmware/n version
20240318.git3b128b60-0ubuntu2.25
* BE211/BE213 (WhP2):
- iwlwifi-bz-b0-wh-b0-c102.ucode:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/commit/?id=b21b48725314dcca554a8b23bc9c6004cece1042,
already in linux-firmware/r version 20260319.git217ca6e4-0ubuntu1
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Pull backport-iwlwifi-dkms of core103 to support BE201/BE211/BE213 on
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