Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 19 Jun 2011 11:11:27 -0700 | From | Andres Salomon <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL linux-firmware.git] OLPC libertas firmware blobs |
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On Sun, 19 Jun 2011 10:41:22 +0100 Daniel Drake <dsd@laptop.org> wrote:
> On 19 June 2011 05:42, Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net> wrote: > >> LICENCE.OLPC | 33 > >> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ WHENCE | > >> 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ libertas/lbtf_sdio.bin | Bin 0 -> > >> 120924 bytes libertas/lbtf_usb.bin | Bin 0 -> 118888 bytes > >> libertas/sd8686_v9_OLPC.bin | Bin 0 -> 124244 bytes > >> libertas/usb8388_v5_OLPC.bin | Bin 0 -> 127824 bytes > > > > Of course, if people would prefer the OLPC version to supersede the > > ones currently in the linux-firmware tree, I can do that instead. I > > don't know what versions of sd8686.bin and usb8388.bin are actually > > in the tree. I also don't know if the OLPC versions improve or > > make things worse for people using those chips on non-OLPC systems. > > This overlaps with a submission I made the other day (of usb8388 > firmware), sorry for the lack of coordination there.
Ah, sorry, I didn't know you were on top of this. I'm wanting to kill off the Debian OLPC-specific libertas package, and finally found some time to put together a pull request.
> > I don't think the OLPC hardware has any quirks or special features > that mean it requires special firmware. > > However, for the usb8388 we do use a special firmware developed by > Cozybit (not Marvell), the one you submitted, which has its own > versioning scheme. The main difference is that it includes mesh > support. I am pretty sure it would run on any usb8388 but OLPC is the > only user of the hardware anyway. See > http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/libertas-dev/2010-November/003330.html > and the rest of the discussion. > > As for sd8686, I thought our firmware was standard, from Marvell, and > simply a newer version of what is in linux-firmware. Do you have > reason to believe otherwise? >
I was just playing it safe. I have changelogs for the usb8388 firmware releases, but not for sd8686. I'll defer to you for XO-1.5 stuff.
I'm more interested in the lbtf stuff anyways, as I don't see much use for the on-chip mesh. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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