Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 19 Jun 2011 10:41:22 +0100 | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL linux-firmware.git] OLPC libertas firmware blobs | From | Daniel Drake <> |
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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?
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