Re: [PATCH] mwl8k: Add 0x2a02 PCI device-id (Marvell 88W8361)

Lennert Buytenhek
2012-04-27T09:58:46Z

On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 11:56:00AM +0200, Sedat Dilek wrote:

> >> >> Are you planning to or even working on support (for) 8361 devices?
> >> >
> >> > I don't have any such plans, and I don't know of anyone who does.
> >>
> >> Does 8361 require firmware support?
> >
> > What do you mean by that?
>
> IIRC ath5k for example needs no external firmware file.

The 8361 requires firmware to be loaded into it before it'll do
anything useful.

> >> Does a firmware file exist (name?)?
> >
> > There's firmware for the 8361 out there, however, that version of
> > the firmware implements a firmware API that is different from the
> > one that mwl8k currently implements.
> >
> > You could add 8361 support to mwl8k, but then you'd have to go over
> > all the firmware command invocations in mwl8k and make sure that they
> > will work on the 8361 firmware that you're trying to support as well.
>
> Without having a 8361 this will be even harder to walk through.
>
> Anyway, thanks for your detailed explanations.
>
> What's the alternative for such affected users?
> Use ndis-wrapper?

I'm not sure. I've never tried to get a 8361 work under Linux.