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Subject: Re: Atheros firmware support
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 14:00:37 +0100
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To: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
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Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> skribis:

> On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 10:59:47AM +0100, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s 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^ 1306b0b003a557105d3b=
27e44052db217c7283d3 | wc -l
> 29177

Yeah.  The patches come from the firmware=E2=80=99s source code repo:

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

Normally, one would run =E2=80=98make toolchain=E2=80=99 in the firmware=E2=
=80=99s 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=E2=80=99.