Re: TI wirelesl WL18xx drivers

[Liviu Gheorghisan <liviu.gheorghisan@enea.com>]

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Hi again,

On 12/12/2014 11:27 AM, Kalle Komierowski wrote:
> Hi Liviu,
>
> Thanks for the quick reply.
> I am using Yocto YP Core - Dizzy 1.7 
> <https://www.yoctoproject.org/downloads/core/dizzy17>, the latest.
> I could of had specified a bit better what I've done but I was a bit 
> too eager in my last email.
> I started by changing these settings compared to the standard 
> Beaglebone kernel:
>
> +CONFIG_WL_TI=y
> +# CONFIG_WL1251 is not set
> +# CONFIG_WL12XX is not set
> +CONFIG_WL18XX=m
> +CONFIG_WLCORE=m
> +# CONFIG_WLCORE_SPI is not set
> +CONFIG_WLCORE_SDIO=m
> +CONFIG_WILINK_PLATFORM_DATA=y
>
> I got the modules in my /build/tmp/deploy/images/beaglebone
> modules-beaglebone.tgz
>
> When I started my beaglebone I tried lsmod but couldn't see the them 
> so I tried to modprobe them in but failed.
>
> I'm not sitting at my board now so unfortunately I can't say exactly 
> what the error was but when I googled I saw somebody that also needed 
> the compat module. So I figured I could add it to my image.
>
> Well anyway, so if I continue on my first track, fixing the kernel 
> config to include WL18xx, do you have a recommendation on what I could 
> do next?
I don't have any recommendations regarding the configuration of WL18XX 
yet, since we are currently in the process of getting WL18xx up as well 
:), on a board similar to BeagleBone (am335x), on kernel-3.14.
>
> Again, thanks,
> BR
> Kalle
>
>
> On December 12, 2014, Liviu Gheorghisan <liviu.gheorghisan@enea.com> 
> wrote:
>
>> Hello Kalle,
>>
>> Starting with kernel-3.12, the wl18xx drivers are in-tree, so there 
>> is no need any more for a yocto/oe layer to support them. You just 
>> need to activate the required kernel configs in order to have them built.
>>
>> Google a little for CONFIG_WL18XX and its dependencies.
>>
>>
>> On 12/12/2014 09:44 AM, Kalle Komierowski wrote:
>>
>>     Hi all,
>>
>>     I'm new to this list, and new to Yocto.
>>     I am about use the TI WL18xx wifi together with Beaglebone. I've
>>     seen that the older WL12xx drivers are present.
>>     I included the
>>     meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-kernel/compat-wireless
>>     layer/recipe but compat-wireless fails when compiling (maybe a
>>     question something for the meta-oe mailing list)
>>
>>     I have two questions:
>>     1. Is there ongoing work to support the WL18xx drivers in a
>>     yocto/oe layer? (if yes, when will they be available?)
>>     2. Should this work be done in meta-ti or the
>>     meta-oe/compat-wireless?
>>
>>     Thanks for your time.
>>
>>
>>     BR
>>     -Kalle Komierowski
>>
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Liviu Gheorghisan
>> Software Engineer
>>
>> http://www.enea.com

-- 
Liviu Gheorghisan


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