Broadcom 43340 module on iMX6DL

Dong Aisheng b29396 at freescale.com
Sun Apr 26 20:33:52 PDT 2015


On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 09:03:04PM +0200, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> 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.
> 

One simple question:
Does the brcmfmac driver in upstream kernel also work?
I mean this one:
drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211

Regards
Dong Aisheng

> 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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