Re: RTL8159 firmware

[Jan Hendrik Farr]

On 01 19:24:13, Birger Koblitz wrote:
> Hi Jan,
> 
> On 7/1/26 19:13, Jan Hendrik Farr wrote:
> > Hi Birger,
> > 
> > it looks like the firmware file rtl_nic/rtl8159-1.fw isn't in linux-firmware yet.
> > Could you send it for people to potentially test?
> > 
> > Jan
> > 
> The code to create the binary firmware file is at:
> https://gitlab.com/koblitz-rtlnic/rtlnic_fw

I'm getting a 404.


> But I cannot submit the firmware itself to linux-firmware, as the sourcecode from
> which the binary data is extracted is published by Realtek under the GPL.
> For linux-firmware, a binary distribution license is necessary, which requires
> someone from Realtek to license it under their usual firmware license. I
> contacted Realtek, but never heard back.

Ok, let's hope they'll get back to you...



Jan