Re: Atheros firmware support

[Ludovic Courtès]

Andreas Enge <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 10:59:47AM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> Commit 1306b0b fixes a miscompilation of the ath9k-htc-firmware package
>> (I had overlooked the fact that the upstream source patches Binutils and
>> GCC to get things done.)
>
> This is a bit frightening:
> $ git diff 1306b0b003a557105d3b27e44052db217c7283d3^ 
> 1306b0b003a557105d3b27e44052db217c7283d3 | wc -l
> 29177

Yeah.  The patches come from the firmware’s source code repo:

  https://github.com/qca/open-ath9k-htc-firmware/tree/master/local/patches

Normally, one would run ‘make toolchain’ in the firmware’s source tree,
which would build a patched tool chain.  But here, we build the tool
chain ourselves, so we need to import these patches.

We can only hope that Qualcomm will get those patches upstream.

Ludo’.