please update linux-firmware to include latest iwlwifi firmware

[Yu Watanabe]

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/...

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/...

Best,
Yu

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

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

[Josh Boyer]

On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 1:27 AM, Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora(a)leemhuis.info&gt; 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

[Yu Watanabe]

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(a)leemhuis.info&gt; 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
>

[Ankur Sinha]

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
-- 
Thanks,
Warm regards,
Ankur (FranciscoD)

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha

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