libertas 8385 firmware

Marek Vasut marek.vasut at gmail.com
Tue Jul 13 04:07:28 EDT 2010


Dne Út 13. července 2010 05:08:29 Дымченко Богдан Геннадиевич napsal(a):
> But why there is a code about SPI in libertas source code and
> gspi8385_hlp.bin?
> if_spi.c:73
> { .chip_id = 0x04, .name = 8385 },

Please keep ML and interested parties CCed. The gspi8385_hlp.bin is a name of 
the helper firmware binary (that's like a bootloader for the card, like you have 
GRUB or lilo on PC ;-) )
> 
> if_spi.c:905
> MODULE_FIRMWARE("libertas/gspi8385_hlp.bin");
> MODULE_FIRMWARE("libertas/gspi8385.bin");

The other one is the real firmware that runs on the device (like linux kernel on 
your PC :) )
> 
> we just need bin files, because there is Marvell 8385 wireless adapter,
> worked over SPI, and we try to run it under Linux.

Yes I know, and you don't know where to get them? Maybe ask Marvell ?

> Thank you.
> 2010/7/13 Marek Vasut <marek.vasut at gmail.com>
> 
> > Dne Ne 11. července 2010 00:03:47 Дымченко Богдан Геннадиевич napsal(a):
> > > Hi. I have a 8385 marvell wireless chip. But there is no firmware for
> > > it, because it use gspi. Can you tell how i can get it? Here is log. [
> > > 229.402000] libertas_spi spi3.0: 13000000 Hz actual, PIO
> > > [ 229.434596] libertas_spi spi3.0: setup mode 0, 16 bits/w, 13000000 Hz
> > 
> > max
> > 
> > > --> 0
> > > [ 229.453868] libertas_spi spi3.0: firmware: requesting
> > > libertas/gspi8385_hlp.bin
> > > [ 289.725731] libertas: request_firmware failed with err = -2
> > > [ 289.743805] libertas: failed to load helper firmware (err=-2)
> > > [ 289.761834] libertas_spi: probe of spi3.0 failed with error -2
> > > [ 296.280690] lib80211: common routines for IEEE802.11 drivers
> > > [ 296.298452] lib80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'
> > > [ 314.532373] libertas: Unknown symbol mutex_lock (err 0)
> > > [ 314.750825] libertas_spi: Libertas SPI driver
> > > 
> > > Thank you.
> > 
> > I dunno about SPI, but there was for cf8385. Holger CCed.



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