Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 21 Jun 2011 00:18:05 -0700 | From | Andres Salomon <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL linux-firmware.git] OLPC libertas firmware blobs |
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On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 23:47:13 -0500 Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-06-19 at 10:41 +0100, Daniel Drake 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. > > > > 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? > > For usb8388 I don't think we really care which firmware is default > since OLPC was about the only consumer of that chip that I've ever > heard of. > > For the other firmware I periodically trawled Marvell's Extranet and > grabbed latest firmware from there. If you guys have a newer micro > version of the firmware then great, push it. Latest I have access to > for 8686 is SD-8686-FEDORA26FC6-SYSKT-9.70.20.p0-26409.p64 so if > you've got something newer great.
Looks like the one on dev.l.o is older (9.70.7.p0). Shall I redo the pull request a) ignoring sd8686, b) replacing usb8388 v5 with the OLPC version, and c) including both thinfirm blobs as well, then?
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