[PATCH V2] fwcutter: Add firmware 6.30.163.46

Rafał Miłecki zajec5 at gmail.com
Mon Jul 29 17:23:43 EDT 2013


2013/7/29 Hauke Mehrtens <hauke at hauke-m.de>:
> 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 There is some (probably outdated) list of Broadcom 802.11ac routers: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?

mmiotrace is x86/x86_64 only at this point :(

-- 
Rafał



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