Re: brcmfmac NVRAM files

[Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>]

On 02/17/14 18:37, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> On 02/17/14 17:52, Bernd Wagener wrote:
>> Am 17.02.2014 17:33, schrieb Samuel Ortiz:
>>> On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 04:06:40PM +0100, Samuel Ortiz wrote:
>>>> Hi Arend,
>>>>
>>>> I'm trying to use a 43241 SDIO chip here, and it fails asking for the
>>>> .txt file (brcmfmac43241b4-sdio.txt). This seems to be an NVRAM map
>>>> file, but I could not find either a template on linux-firmware or any
>>>> kind of documentation about it.
>>>>
>>>> How do distro handle that ? Are they expected to build their own, or is
>>>> it completely OEM pecific ?
>>> Adding Franky to the Cc list.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Samuel.
>>>
>> Hi Samuel,
>> I had the same proble with a wandboard here and I guess it's a bug. In
>> /lib/firmware/brcm are all reqired *.bin files, but no *.txt file. On
>> www.wandboard.or I found a SDK-Kit with brcmfmac4329-sdio.txt, copied
>> the file and then the wlan was running.
>> The *.txt are simply forgotten to copy to the firmware directory.
>> No idea how to fix this.
>
> Hi Bernd,
>
> The hint to solve this is found on wireless.kernel.org [1] and the
> answer is as Samuel suspects. This file is very board specific so OEMs
> manufacturing/selling the board should provide it either upon request or
> through some distribution like a SDK. Because of the nature of the file
> we do not put it on linux-firmware although people like yourself can get
> lucky trying ;-)

forgot:

[1] http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/brcm80211

> Regards,
> Arend
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