Marvell 86868 SDIO firmware loading failure

[Maurus Cuelenaere]

Op 14-10-09 12:27, Jonathan Cameron schreef:
> Maurus Cuelenaere wrote:
>    
>> Hi Chris,
>>
>> Op 13-10-09 21:18, Chris Ball schreef:
>>      
>>> Hi Maurus,
>>>
>>>        
>>>> [ 18.970000] libertas: firmware helper signalled error
>>>>          
>>> There was a thread with similar symptoms on this list two months ago:
>>>
>>> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/libertas-dev/2009-August/002665.html
>>>        
>> I did saw that thread before posting, but didn't look very close at it.
>>
>> I've now tried putting an msleep(1) before the sdio_writesb() call in both
>> if_sdio_prog_helper() and if_sdio_prog_real() (the OP had problems
>> loading the
>> helper firmware, but in my case it's in loading the actual firmware),
>> but it
>> didn't change anything.
>>      
> Though I'm still having 'issues' with the timing of firmware loads the above
> fix is more or less what I'm using.
>
> Note that the error without that fix does turn up in the main firmware load
> (despite the fix being needed in the helper firmware load).
>
> That's not to say I think your problem is the same one.
>
> As an interesting aside the smart mer git repository seems to have a few patches
> related to the libertas driver. Not a clue where the came from and none of them have
> obvious connections to firmware loading though.
>    

AFAIK this is from Marvell itself, it was included in the patch that 
Smartdevices provided.

> Tree is
>
> git://gitorious.org/mer-smartq/mer-smartq-kernel.git
>
> Patch in question was
>
> commit 00f370ce61f903ba8697709d58dc459fd65579f5
> Author: YouSheng<david.ysh at gmail.com>
> Date:   Tue Jul 21 14:56:03 2009 +0800
>
>      Apply smartq patch
>
>
> Guess David might know more?
>    

This is the "official" Mer SmartQ tree.

My tree/the 2.6.32 one is 
git://gitorious.org/mcuelenaere-smartq-kernel/mcuelenaere-smartq-kernel.git

Regards,
Maurus Cuelenaere