Re: brcmfmac NVRAM files

[Bernd Wagener <Bernd.Wagener@Uni-Oldenburg.DE>]

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Am 17.02.2014 19:00, schrieb Samuel Ortiz:
> Hi Arend,
>
> On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 06:37:33PM +0100, Arend van Spriel wrote:
>> 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.
> There are several Win8 2-in-1 devices that do run the SDIO Full MAC
> chipsets and obviously there is no SDK for those. Which means no distro
> will ever be able to run out of the box on those.
> I may be completely off the mark here, but isn't there a sensible
> template for those guys ? Nothing optimised, but just something that
> would at least make things work...
>
> Also, the hint for pre 3.13 kernel is to copy the .bin into a .txt. Is
> that still the case for post 3.13 ?
>
> Cheers,
> Samuel.
>
No, thats wrong. You need a special board-specific *.txt file and rename 
it for kernels > 3.12 to brcmfmacxxxx-sdio.txt.

Bernd


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