[PATCH RFC] aquantia-firmware: package MediaTek's Aquantia AQR113C firmware

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On 5.02.2024 22:10, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> On 5.02.2024 15:15, Robert Marko wrote:
>> On Mon, 5 Feb 2024 at 14:23, Rafał Miłecki <zajec5 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> From: Rafał Miłecki <rafal at milecki.pl>
>>>
>>> Aquantia AQR113C is PHY that needs loading a firmware. Some devices may
>>> have it stored on flash and some need filesystem to provide it.
>>>
>>> MediaTek holds its own AQR113C firmware file for its boards. Package it.
>>
>> Hi Rafal, not going into details of this patch, but what is the
>> license situation with
>> redistributing the AQR firmware?
> 
> Good question. I don't know.
> 
> Cc linux-mediatek@
> Can we get some licensing help, please?
> 
> 
> 
> Initial firmware file
> Rhe-05.06-Candidate7-AQR_Mediatek_23B_StartOff_ID45623_VER36657.cld was
> added in the commit:
> 
> commit 24ba51c5be18613127b2d8407b0223174624b130
> Author: developer <developer at mediatek.com>
> Date:   Tue Nov 15 11:22:46 2022 +0800
> 
>      [][kernel][mt7988][eth][Change AQR113C firmware download method to MDIO gangload]
> 
>      [Description]
>      Change AQR113C firmware download method to MDIO gangload.
> 
>      If without this patch, AQR113C cannot boot from MDIO gangload.
> 
>      [Release-log]
>      N/A
> 
> 
>      Change-Id: Iddc29f5e1c73c772bcea9313938b6daccc10025a
>      Reviewed-on: https://gerrit.mediatek.inc/c/openwrt/feeds/mtk_openwrt_feeds/+/6781059
> 
> with not licensing details.
> 
> 
> 
> Later there was a firmware update update handled by adding file:
> Rhe-05.06-Candidate9-AQR_Mediatek_23B_P5_ID45824_LCLVER1.cld in the commit:
> 
> commit 405b1e31f924b97d379719fb39f0d28c0fac43a9
> Author: developer <developer at mediatek.com>
> Date:   Tue Mar 28 17:00:41 2023 +0800
> 
>      [][kernel][mt7988][eth][Fix AQR113C 5GBASE-T compliance test mode4 tone1 fail issue]
> 
>      [Description]
>      Fix AQR113C 5GBASE-T compliance test mode4 tone1 fail issue by
>      updating firmware version to
>      Rhe-05.06-Candidate9-AQR_Mediatek_23B_P5_ID45824_LCLVER1.cld.
> 
>      If without this patch, AQR113C might not pass the 5GBASE-T mode4 tone1
>      items for the compliance test.
> 
>      [Release-log]
>      N/A
> 
> 
>      Change-Id: I3b2c6e6cf1a6ba8183daa7e30110ff2c839c5989
>      Reviewed-on: https://gerrit.mediatek.inc/c/openwrt/feeds/mtk_openwrt_feeds/+/7305781
> 
> but again with not licensing info.
> 
> 
> 
> I also can't find any readme file specifying licensing of those files.

Maybe these should be submitted to the linux-firmware repository (by
MediaTek or with MediaTek's approval) and the license specified on the
WHENCE file.

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/

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