Bug#1074308: firmware-atheros: QCA 6174: Newest version 309 missing

[Paul Menzel <pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de>]

Dear Debian folks,


Am 26.06.24 um 12:43 schrieb Paul Menzel:

[…]

> On the Dell XPS 13 9360 with
>
>      $ lspci -nn -s 3a:00
>      3a:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter [168c:003e] (rev 32)
>      $ dpkg -l firmware-atheros
>      […]
>      ii  firmware-atheros 20230625-2   all          Binary firmware for Qualcomm Atheros wireless cards
>      $ md5sum /usr/lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA6174/hw3.0/firmware-6.bin
>      8ced7808c8877e7f8ad664efc0f14992 /usr/lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA6174/hw3.0/firmware-6.bin
>
> firmware version 288 is loaded:
>
>      ath10k_pci 0000:3a:00.0: firmware ver WLAN.RM.4.4.1-00288- api 6 features wowlan,ignore-otp,mfp crc32 bf907c7c
>
> The upstream repository contains version 309 already since June 22nd, 
> 2023 [1].
>
>      $ md5sum QCA6174/hw3.0/4.4.1/firmware-6.bin_WLAN.RM.4.4.1-00309-
>      ed43130330c505b084de2c5b820c32b0 QCA6174/hw3.0/4.4.1/firmware-6.bin_WLAN.RM.4.4.1-00309-
>
> It’d be great if you could distribute that version, as I still 
> experience some problems with the firmware version 288.

It was added to the linux-firmware archive in December 2023 [2], and 
first released in version 20240115.

     File: ath10k/QCA6174/hw3.0/firmware-6.bin
    -Version: WLAN.RM.4.4.1-00288-QCARMSWPZ-1
    +Version: WLAN.RM.4.4.1-00309-


Kind regards,

Paul


> [1]: https://git.codelinaro.org/clo/ath-firmware/ath10k-firmware/-/commit/374d14289ea572c28d99a79d527637898512df40
[2]: 
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/commit/?id=8a4482899932791711133d3be037e7625e5973b9