Broadcom 43340 module on iMX6DL

Arend van Spriel arend at broadcom.com
Fri Apr 24 12:03:04 PDT 2015


On 04/24/15 20:24, John Tobias wrote:
> Hi Arend,
>
> Apologize for the confusion. I am asking the repo for the device
> driver for 43340. Looking at the link you sent, it's more userspace
> support and didn't see the device driver there...

crap. you are right. it is userspace and firmware. You need a kernel 
repo. There are some on the site I referred to, but you may need to 
contact Freescale whether they provide it publicly like on github or so.

Regards,
Arend

> Regards,
>
> John
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 11:14 AM, Arend van Spriel<arend at broadcom.com>  wrote:
>> On 04/24/15 19:49, John Tobias wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Arend,
>>>
>>> I am not pretty sure if the brcm43340 driver for android is the latest
>>> one.  May I know repo?.
>>
>>
>> Not sure what you are asking. I gave the url. Did you try using the
>> brcmfmac4334-sdio.bin firmware file. I would like to know if that one works
>> for your device.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Arend
>>
>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> John
>>>
>>> On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 1:20 AM, Arend van Spriel<arend at broadcom.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 04/24/15 03:04, John Tobias wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Btw, where I could get a copy of the latest driver?.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The open-source bcmdhd is in AOSP [1]. I would stick to the android
>>>> release
>>>> branch you are running on your device.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Arend
>>>>
>>>> [1] https://android.googlesource.com/platform/hardware/broadcom/wlan/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>
>>>>> John
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 5:59 PM, John Tobias<john.tobias.ph at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi John,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is it possible to have a copy of the firmware for 43340?.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> John
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 5:57 PM, John Stultz<john.stultz at linaro.org>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 12:00 PM, Arend van Spriel<arend at broadcom.com>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> By the name of the file I suspected you did. Personally, I verified
>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>> firmware works on 43341. John Stultz tested both 43340 and 43341 with
>>>>>>>> this
>>>>>>>> firmware.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Minor correction here, I only tested on 43341 hardware. The confusion
>>>>>>> might be that the firmware I originally had access to claimed it was
>>>>>>> 43340.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> thanks
>>>>>>> -john
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>




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