b43 fails to work with broadcom 43227

Jack x6719620 at gmail.com
Sat Aug 18 03:02:39 EDT 2012


There're no more complains about the SPROM after applying your patch.
BCMA is supposed to work properly.
I'm looking forward to the support of 43227 in b43. I would like to
test a development version if possible.
Thank you.

2012/8/18 Rafał Miłecki <zajec5 at gmail.com>:
> 2012/8/17 Jack <x6719620 at gmail.com>:
>> Dear developers,
>>
>> Hello. I have a Broadcom 43227, with ID 14e4:4358. According to
>> previous threads, I patched and recompiled the module 'bcma' by adding
>> PCI_DEVICE(PCI_VENDOR_ID_BROADCOM, 0x4358) to host_pci.c. However, it
>> does not work as well.
>>
>> I am using 3.4.9-1-ARCH kernel, and I got the following dmesg after
>> inserting the module b43. No new interfaces showed up.
>>
>> [  386.153119] bcma: Found chip with id 0xA8DB, rev 0x00 and package 0x08
>> [  386.153164] bcma: Core 0 found: ChipCommon (manuf 0x4BF, id 0x800,
>> rev 0x25, class 0x0)
>> [  386.153201] bcma: Core 1 found: IEEE 802.11 (manuf 0x4BF, id 0x812,
>> rev 0x1E, class 0x0)
>> [  386.153278] bcma: Core 2 found: PCIe (manuf 0x4BF, id 0x820, rev
>> 0x12, class 0x0)
>>
>> [  386.153313] bcma: Core 3 found: SDIO Device (manuf 0x4BF, id 0x829,
>> rev 0x07, class 0x0)
>> [  386.153484] bcma: PLL init unknown for device 0xA8DB
>> [  386.192637] bcma: PMU resource config unknown for device 0xA8DB
>> [  386.204612] bcma: PMU switch/regulators init unknown for device 0xA8DB
>> [  386.216631] bcma: Workarounds unknown for device 0xA8DB
>> [  386.253679] bcma: Using fallback SPROM failed (err -2)
>> [  386.253686] bcma: No SPROM available
>> [  386.293112] bcma: Bus registered
>> [  428.245922] Broadcom 43xx driver loaded [ Features: PMNLS ]
>>
>> I have no ideas about what is going wrong, whether the SPROM or the
>> b43 driver. I would like to test new patches and give feedback as far
>> as possible.
>
> You won't get BCM43227 support in b43 yet, it's not finished yet. But
> you should try to fix that SPROM error. Please test patch I've just
> submitted (and Cc-ed you):
> [RFT][PATCH] bcma: BCM43227 support
>
> --
> Rafał



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