Yes, and NXP sucks big time!
Looks like they do not even want to answer this publicly but here it goes anyway:
From: NXP Tech Support tech.support@nxp.com
Subject: NXP support case: #00378643: “[Community] Plan to Update Public Wi-Fi Firmware Available on Kernel.org”: Project “”
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2021 08:38:08 +0000NXP is currently focusing on releasing (and testing) the latest NXP Wi-Fi chipsets driver and firmwares for NXP i.MX platforms.
Please refer to:
https://www.nxp.com/design/software/embedded-software/i-mx-software/embedded-linux-for-i-mx-applications-processors:IMXLINUXAs we release the i.MX Linux SW using Yocto build system, anyone can find the latest wifi driver and FW on these repositories:
- wifi driver: https://source.codeaurora.org/external/nxpwifi/mwifiex
- wifi firmwares: https://github.com/NXP/imx-firmware
Some old NXP (ex-Marvell) Wifi chipsets driver and firmwares have been upstreamed to official Linux kernel in the past:
- wifi driver: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git, directory: drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/
- wifi firmwares: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git, directory: mrvl
But unfortunately, NXP has no plan to update these official kernel driver/firmwares for now.