Re: Marvell 88w8385 Support

[Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>]

On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 16:29 +0100, Holger Schurig wrote:
> > From what I can tell there was a patch (referenced here:
> > http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=123782768023390&w=2) to fix this
> > but I also get indications that this is not the case since there is both
> > a USB and miniPCI version of the 88w8385.
> 
> This patch is only for the CF/PCMCIA versions of this those chips.
> 
> There is no if_pci.c yet inside drivers/net/wireless/libertas/, if you
> are certain you've a PCI card you're welcome to write one, should be
> pretty easy. You can get help by looking at the other if_*.c files for
> other physical interfaces.
> 
> 
> > You write something
> > (http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=124334594302472&w=2) that is
> > cryptic to me.
> 
> Can you elaborate?  What exactly here is cryptic?
> 
> CF/SDIO/GSPO/USB ?
> 8015/8385 ?
> 
> 
> > Also searching the kernel gittree I found
> > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=drivers/net/wireless/libertas/if_spi.c;h=06a46d7b3d6c2460aecd793d2827033c7c0348f6;hb=cadeba315cc91ae1b57632e61b0cec3a4ed7088d
> > which seems to include a driver for the miniPCI libertas 88w8385.
> 
> No, if_spi.c is an indicator that this is  for an SPI or GSPI.
> 
> There's to my knowledge no such thing as a PCI-based Marvell 8385
> chip/card/whatever.

I'm fairly sure 8385 is only CF and SDIO.

Perhaps he means 8335 instead?  That was available in both USB and PCI,
but it's a softmac part that doesn't have mwl8k support yet afaik.

Dan


> There is, however, some support for other Marvel 8xxx PCI-based cards
> in linux, see drivers/net/wireless/mwl8k.c.