[PATCH V2] fwcutter: Add firmware 6.30.163.46

Hauke Mehrtens hauke at hauke-m.de
Mon Jul 29 17:15:17 EDT 2013


On 07/29/2013 10:07 PM, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> 2013/7/29 Rafał Miłecki <zajec5 at gmail.com>:
>> 2013/7/29 Larry Finger <Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net>:
>>> This firmware version can be extracted from the GPL tarball for the ASUS
>>> GPL code for the RT-AC66U 802.11ac Dual-Band Wireless-AC1750 Gigabit Router.
>>>
>>> I believe this to be the first instance of 802.11ac firmware for Broadcom
>>> hardware. The firmware is version 784.2.
>>>
>>> Note: The http://www.lwfinger.com/broadcom-wl-6.30.163.46.tar.bz2 is the URL
>>> of the extracted apsta binary. The full GPL package is at
>>> http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/wireless/RT-AC66U/GPL_RT_AC66U_3004372.zip.
>>
>> There is some (probably outdated) list of Broadcom 802.11ac routers:
>> ASUS RT-AC66U
>> Linksys EA6500
>> Netgear R6300
>>
>> Did you compare wl.ko drivers from the 2 other firmwares? Is this the
>> newest one?
>>
>> Did you start AC-PHY RE process?
> 
> In case you wonder, I have a MIPS router with BCM4331 + BCM4360,
> unfrotunately there isn't mmiotrace available for MIPS, so I can't
> start RE that way :(
> 
> I may think about buying PCE-AC66 at some point.
> 
Hi Rafał,

I have a Netgear R6250 (BCM4708 ARM Contex-A9) router with BCM4331 +
BCM4360 and I am currently adding support for it to OpenWrt and mainline
Linux kernel, could mmiotrace work on this CPU?

Hauke



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