Re: [linux-sunxi] Firmware for Bluetooth (and wifi)

[Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>]

Hi,

On 01/26/2014 01:58 PM, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> On 01/26/2014 11:23 AM, Hans de Goede wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 01/26/2014 09:53 AM, Arend van Spriel wrote:
>>> On 01/24/2014 05:34 PM, Hans de Goede wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> On 01/24/2014 11:25 AM, Arend van Spriel wrote:
>>>>> On 01/23/2014 11:39 PM, Hans de Goede wrote:
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I've been working on updating sunxi-devel to include more
>>>>>> recent versions if your gmac patches, as well as adding support
>>>>>> for the wifi + bluetooth found on the cubietruck.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Here is my current work on this:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://github.com/jwrdegoede/linux-sunxi/commits/sunxi-devel
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It is close to working, but unfortunately it does not work,
>>>>>> here is what I get in dmesg when I modprove the module:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [   99.700889] brcmfmac_sdio mmc1:0001:1: device tree node not found
>>>>>> [  100.020984] brcmfmac: brcmf_c_preinit_dcmds: Firmware version =
>>>>>> wl0:
>>>>>> Apr 22 2013 14:50:00 version 5.90.195.89.6 FWID 01-b30a427d
>>>>>> [  100.260948] brcmfmac: brcmf_fil_cmd_data: Failed err=-23
>>>>>> [  100.281260] brcmfmac: brcmf_fil_cmd_data: Failed err=-23
>>>>>> [  100.322508] usbcore: registered new interface driver brcmfmac
>>>>>> [  160.445215] brcmfmac: brcmf_cfg80211_sched_scan_start: Scanning
>>>>>> already: status (1)
>>>>>> [  203.445404] brcmfmac: brcmf_cfg80211_sched_scan_start: Scanning
>>>>>> already: status (1)
>>>>>> [  256.445140] brcmfmac: brcmf_cfg80211_sched_scan_start: Scanning
>>>>>> already: status (1)
>>>>>
>>>>> Can you enable debug logging in brcmfmac, ie. debug=0xd416 so I can
>>>>> have
>>>>> a look.
>>>>
>>>> I've captured a log with these flags until the first "Scanning already"
>>>> message, you can find it here:
>>>
>>> Bedankt, Hans
>>>
>>> Looking at the log it looks more or less ok. wpa_supplicant (assume you
>>> use that) first does three regular scans which end with no APs found.
>>> Not sure why that happens unless you are in a shielded room :-) After
>>> those scans wpa_supplicant tries to tell the device to do a so-called
>>> scheduled scan. Basically, it is a scan offload. However, the driver
>>> still thinks there is a regular scan ongoing. This needs to be
>>> investigated more.
>>
>> Thanks for looking into this. I've nothing scheduled this entire Sunday
>> except working on hobby projects. If there is anything I can do to help,
>> you can find me in #linux-sunxi on freenode irc. My nick is hansg.
>>
>> I would really like to get this working, so feel free to poke me to run
>> any tests / debug log gathering exercises you think will be helpful.
>
> I did a quick diff between your brcmfmac folder and mine. I am curious
> what your results are after the merge window. There has been a lot of
> rework in SDIO part of brcmfmac driver.

Ok, I plan to rebase my tree on 3.14-rc1 when it is released. I'll run
some more tests then and let you know how things go.

Regards,

Hans