[Buildroot] [PATCH] linux-firmware: bump version
Floris Bos
bos at je-eigen-domein.nl
Sat Sep 17 10:59:16 UTC 2016
On 09/17/2016 11:04 AM, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
> > On 09/16/2016 07:54 PM, Gustavo Zacarias wrote:
> >> On 2016-09-15 17:16, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
> >>
> >>> Committed, thanks.
> >>>
> >>> Will you send a patch to add BR2_PACKAGE_LINUX_FIRMWARE_BRCM_BCM43XX to
> >>> the rpi3 defconfig?
> >>
> >> Hi.
> >> Well, without some $WiFi package (hostapd, wpa_supplicant,
> >> wireless-tools) just copying the firmware serves no purpose, though
> >> it can be done for completeness.
> >> That being said, i lack a rpi3.
>
> > And unless that changed recently, just the .bin the patch added
> > wouldn't be sufficient for Pi 3.
> > Also need:
> > https://github.com/RPi-Distro/firmware-nonfree/blob/master/brcm80211/brcm/brcmfmac43430-sdio.txt
>
> Hmm, perhaps. Do you have a rpi 3 to test on? The linux-firmware commit
> doesn't mention anything about it:
>
> http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/commit/?id=c4c07a8d1128d50a5c2885ceea1abbebaa82f820
==
[ 6.785594] usbcore: registered new interface driver brcmfmac
[ 6.786851] brcmfmac_sdio mmc1:0001:1: Direct firmware load for
brcm/brcmfmac43430-sdio.txt failed with error -2
[ 7.789831] brcmfmac: brcmf_sdio_htclk: HT Avail timeout (1000000):
clkctl 0x50
[ 8.802492] brcmfmac: brcmf_sdio_htclk: HT Avail timeout (1000000):
clkctl 0x50
==
Again, maybe they changed things very recently in a newer kernel branch
or something.
But it simply does not work with the standard rpi one unless you also
have the .txt
Yours sincerely,
Floris Bos
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