From: Arend van Spriel <aspriel@gmail.com>
To: Kyle McMartin <kyle@infradead.org>,
Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Rafal Milecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] brcmfmac: firmware refresh for BCM43602 PCIE devices
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2015 20:12:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56058E74.3060503@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150925000004.GF26918@merlin.infradead.org>
On 25-09-15 02:00, Kyle McMartin wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 08:45:04PM +0200, Arend van Spriel wrote:
>> A number of end-users reported issues with BCM43602 on the 2015
>> MacBook Pro. It turned out the previously released firmware did
>> not properly support that device [1]. Hence an update of the STA
>> firmware and while at it refresh the AP firmware as well. The
>> latter has been tested using Netgear R8000. The STA firmware has
>> been tested on MacBook Pro.
>>
>
> Are there version numbers we could update in WHENCE to make this
> easier to track?
For brcmfmac firmware we don't have version numbers in WHENCE. To be
honest it feels a bit redundant as the firmware file itself contains the
version number, ie. by doing 'hexdump -C /firmware/ | tail -30'.
Regards,
Arend
> regards, --jkkm
>
>> [1] https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100201
>>
>> Cc: Rafal Milecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
>> Tested-by: Knuth Posern <knuth@posern.org>
>> Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieterpg@broadcom.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
>> ---
>> This patch fixes a couple of issues mentioned in kernel bugzilla
>> #100201 with 2015 MacBook Pro machines using this wifi chipset.
>>
>> The patch applies to master branch of the linux-firmware repository
>> on top of commit f88e5c2e2ff5 ("Merge 'c11384c' of
>> git://people.freedesktop.org/~vivijim/linux-firmware...").
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-25 18:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-24 18:45 [PATCH] brcmfmac: firmware refresh for BCM43602 PCIE devices Arend van Spriel
2015-09-25 0:00 ` Kyle McMartin
2015-09-25 18:12 ` Arend van Spriel [this message]
2015-09-30 16:53 ` Arend van Spriel
2015-10-07 17:48 ` Kyle McMartin
2015-10-07 19:57 ` Arend van Spriel
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