Comment # 11 on bug 1213614 from Chester Lin

(In reply to Takashi Iwai from comment #10)
> Hm, we can't simply pick up for the standard package, I'm afraid.

I'm afraid so.

> In the original github repo:
>   https://github.com/linux-surface/aarch64-firmware/tree/main
> 
> """
> Licensing
> 
> We do not have an explicit re-distribution license for some of the firmware
> files provided here, in particular the ones specific to the Microsoft
> Surface Pro X. These rights lie by Microsoft and/or Qualcomm. However, many
> of these files are signed in a way that make them usable only on the Surface
> Pro X. The files here are provided exclusively for convenience (especially
> allowing easy creation of distribution packages) as owners of the Surface
> Pro X can obtain these themselves via the provided script.
> """
> 
> IIRC, Arm takes action for "Linux on Arm Laptop", and TP X13s is exactly the
> primary target, so we can ping Arm people about upstreaming the GPU firmware.
> I suppose a690 stuff is rather the business of Arm.
> 
> Meanwhile, a hackish downstream package to fetch the file at installation
> would be doable, too.

Since Mesa's upstream master seems to support GPU Adreno 690, I will try
running the latest freedreno driver without loading the proprietary firmware.