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From: Mikhail Rudenko <mike.rudenko@gmail.com>
To: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>
Cc: Arend van Spriel <aspriel@gmail.com>,
	Franky Lin <franky.lin@broadcom.com>,
	Hante Meuleman <hante.meuleman@broadcom.com>,
	Chi-hsien Lin <chi-hsien.lin@infineon.com>,
	Wright Feng <wright.feng@infineon.com>,
	Chung-hsien Hsu <chung-hsien.hsu@infineon.com>,
	Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
	Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@gmail.com>,
	Double Lo <double.lo@cypress.com>,
	Remi Depommier <rde@setrix.com>, Amar Shankar <amsr@cypress.com>,
	Saravanan Shanmugham <saravanan.shanmugham@cypress.com>,
	Frank Kao <frank.kao@cypress.com>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
	brcm80211-dev-list.pdl@broadcom.com,
	SHA-cyfmac-dev-list@infineon.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] brcmfmac: use separate firmware for 43430 revision 2
Date: Fri, 14 May 2021 12:41:08 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a6oxpsn8.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d1bac6c3-aa52-5d76-1f2a-4af9edef71c5@broadcom.com>


On 2021-05-10 at 11:06 MSK, Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com> wrote:
> On 5/10/2021 1:30 AM, Mikhail Rudenko wrote:
>> A separate firmware is needed for Broadcom 43430 revision 2.  This
>> chip can be found in e.g. certain revisions of Ampak AP6212 wireless
>> IC. Original firmware file from IC vendor is named
>> 'fw_bcm43436b0.bin', but brcmfmac and also btbcm drivers report chip
>
> That is bad naming. There already is a 43436 USB device.
>
>> id 43430, so requested firmware file name is
>> 'brcmfmac43430b0-sdio.bin' in line with other 43430 revisions.
>
> As always there is the question about who will be publishing this
> particular firmware file to linux-firmware.

The above mentioned file can be easily found by web search. Also, the
corresponding patch for the bluetooth part has just been accepted
[1]. Is it strictly necessary to have firmware file in linux-firmware in
order to have this patch accepted?

--
Regards,
Mikhail

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-bluetooth/E8A21908-1D48-4B89-8A88-7E82A71E0DA4@holtmann.org/

  reply	other threads:[~2021-05-14  9:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-09 23:30 [PATCH] brcmfmac: use separate firmware for 43430 revision 2 Mikhail Rudenko
2021-05-10  8:06 ` Arend van Spriel
2021-05-14  9:41   ` Mikhail Rudenko [this message]
2021-05-21 13:22     ` Mikhail Rudenko
2021-06-24 16:39     ` Kalle Valo
2021-06-28 10:11       ` Arend van Spriel
2021-06-28 12:16 ` Arend van Spriel
2021-06-28 14:05   ` Mikhail Rudenko
2021-06-28 14:54 ` [PATCH v2] " Mikhail Rudenko
2021-08-01 10:25   ` Kalle Valo
2021-08-04 23:13     ` [PATCH v3] " Mikhail Rudenko
2021-08-21 16:58       ` Kalle Valo
2021-08-16 13:59     ` [PATCH v2] " Mikhail Rudenko

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