Dear all,
I found that iwlwifi firmware for 7260 is updated on upstream.
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/com...
When I use the previous firmware (provided by the current linux-firmware rpm), the connection to several hotspot is sometimes lost. So, I've tried to use the new firmware, and it seems to be work fine.
I do not know what is the criteria to include latest firmware. I can not find what kind of fixes applied to the latest firmware. But, I think it might be helpful for many laptop users.
I comment that the iwlwifi firmware for kernel 3.13 are also provided on upstream. https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/com...
Best, Yu
Lo!
On 31.01.2014 04:43, Yu Watanabe wrote:
[...] I do not know what is the criteria to include latest firmware. I can not find what kind of fixes applied to the latest firmware. But, I think it might be helpful for many laptop users.
FWIW, I also was bitten by "the linux-firmware package in Fedora is too old" a few times in the past year when dealing with brand new hardware. @Josh: How about updating it every time we jump to a new mainline kernel version? Should be safe (as always: famous last words ;-) ) and sounds like a good time&frequency to me
Cu knurd
On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 1:27 AM, Thorsten Leemhuis fedora@leemhuis.info wrote:
Lo!
On 31.01.2014 04:43, Yu Watanabe wrote:
[...] I do not know what is the criteria to include latest firmware. I can not find what kind of fixes applied to the latest firmware. But, I think it might be helpful for many laptop users.
FWIW, I also was bitten by "the linux-firmware package in Fedora is too old" a few times in the past year when dealing with brand new hardware. @Josh: How about updating it every time we jump to a new mainline kernel version? Should be safe (as always: famous last words ;-) ) and sounds like a good time&frequency to me
I try and keep an eye on the git repo for it and do releases whenever something important/interesting comes along. I knew we needed the intel firmware update, but I hadn't checked in a while. I'll get an update together later today. It would be nice if upstream actually did releases, but at this point I've given up on that entirely.
josh
Thank you for updating firmware packages. I found them at the updates-testing repository. -- Yu
On 01/31/2014 08:27 PM, Josh Boyer wrote:
On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 1:27 AM, Thorsten Leemhuis fedora@leemhuis.info wrote:
Lo!
On 31.01.2014 04:43, Yu Watanabe wrote:
[...] I do not know what is the criteria to include latest firmware. I can not find what kind of fixes applied to the latest firmware. But, I think it might be helpful for many laptop users.
FWIW, I also was bitten by "the linux-firmware package in Fedora is too old" a few times in the past year when dealing with brand new hardware. @Josh: How about updating it every time we jump to a new mainline kernel version? Should be safe (as always: famous last words ;-) ) and sounds like a good time&frequency to me
I try and keep an eye on the git repo for it and do releases whenever something important/interesting comes along. I knew we needed the intel firmware update, but I hadn't checked in a while. I'll get an update together later today. It would be nice if upstream actually did releases, but at this point I've given up on that entirely.
josh
On Mon, 2014-02-03 at 09:45 +0900, Yu Watanabe wrote:
Thank you for updating firmware packages. I found them at the updates-testing repository.
Please do drop them karma if they work for you using our QA interface:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/linux-firmware
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