Re: Support for various sdio wifi-chips on Allwinner tablets and SBCs

[Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede@gmail.com>]

Hi,

On 14-01-17 15:08, Icenowy Zheng wrote:
>
>
> 08.08.2016, 03:25, "Hans de Goede" <j.w.r.degoede@gmail.com>:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Recently I've been working on getting the sdio-wifi, found on
>> many a23 / a33 tablets as well as on some a10s hdmi sticks and
>> on various h3 SBCs such as the Orange Pi, to work with the
>> mainline kernel.
>>
>> If you use my sunxi-wip kernel branch (which has some dts bits
>> to enable this as well as some misc. bits, which I'm all
>> trying to get upstream) together with one of the following
>> out of tree drivers, you should be able to get your wifi to
>> work.
>>
>> RTL8723BS or RTL8703AS wifi:
>> ----------------------------
>> git clone https://github.com/jwrdegoede/rtl8723bs.git
>> cd rtl8723bs
>> make -j4 ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnu- KSRC=../linux
>>
>> Do not forget to copy *.bin to /lib/firmware/rtlwifi/ on
>> the target system.
>>
>> Many thanks to Bastien Nocera for his great work on the
>> rtl8723bs driver, my repo just adds 2 small fixes
>> to also make the rtl8703as work.
>>
>> RTL8189ES / RTL8189ETV
>> ----------------------
>> git clone https://github.com/jwrdegoede/rtl8189ES_linux.git
>> cd rtl8189ES_linux.git
>> make -j4 ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnu- KSRC=../linux
>>
>> Thanks to Jean-Francois Moine for his initial work on getting
>> the RTL8989ES code to run with upstream kernels.
>>
>> RTL8189FTV
>> ----------
>> git clone https://github.com/jwrdegoede/rtl8189ES_linux.git
>> cd rtl8189ES_linux.git
>> git checkout -B rtl8189fs origin/rtl8189fs
>> make -j4 ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnu- KSRC=../linux
>>
>
> Excuse me for replying such an old email...
>
> If a distro want to provide both 8189es and 8189fs in a kernel package,
> is blacklisting one of them on boards needed?

I believe not, IIRC the both have a separate sdio device-id, but I'm
not sure...

Regards,

Hans



>
>> ESP8089
>> -------
>> git clone https://github.com/jwrdegoede/esp8089.git
>> git checkout -B cleanup origin/cleanup
>> cd ../linux
>> make -j4 ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnu- modules M=../esp8089 CONFIG_ESP8089=m
>>
>> Do not forget to copy firmware/*.bin to /lib/firmware/ on
>> the target system.
>>
>> Many thanks to Icenowy for his work on the esp8089 driver.
>>
>> I hope this is useful to at least some of you.
>>
>> A quick note for Orange Pi users, the older models H3 based
>> Pi-s use a soldered on wifi module with the RTL8189ETV.
>> The newer models (the PC Plus, Lite and Plus 2E) use the
>> RTL8189FTV soldered directly onto the PCB.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Hans