[PATCH 2/2] ARM: dts: Fix WLAN regression on omap5-uevm

Tony Lindgren tony at atomide.com
Fri Sep 18 10:22:21 PDT 2015


* Tony Lindgren <tony at atomide.com> [150918 09:55]:
> * Robert Nelson <robertcnelson at gmail.com> [150918 09:45]:
> > On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 11:29 AM, Tony Lindgren <tony at atomide.com> wrote:
> > > Commit 99f84cae43df ("ARM: dts: add wl12xx/wl18xx bindings") added
> > > device tree bindings for the TI WLAN SDIO on many omap variants.
> > >
> > > I recall wondering how come omap5-uevm did not have the WLAN
> > > added and this issue has been bugging me for a while now, and
> > > I finally tracked it down to a bad pinmux regression, and a missing
> > > deferred probe handling for the 32k clock from palmas that's
> > > requested by twl6040.
> > >
> > > Basically 392adaf796b9 ("ARM: dts: omap5-evm: Add mcspi data")
> > > added pin muxing for mcspi4 that conflicts with the onboard
> > > WLAN. While the omap5-uevm docs say the WLAN is not populated,
> > > this was probably only the case for initial prototypes. Both
> > > omap5-uevm boards I have have WLAN populated.
> > 
> > Production boards from svtronics don't populate the wlan..
> > 
> > http://www.svtronics.com/EVM/OMAP5432/5432
> > 
> > quote: "WiFi not available on this model"
> > 
> > They have an option to order a version with a "COM8Q" connector to add wlan...
> 
> Oh OK interesting.
> 
> > http://www.svtronics.com/EVM/OMAP5432/5432C
> > 
> > http://www.svtronics.com/EVM/OMAP5432/COM8Q
> > 
> > I'm not sure who to bug from that era, but the wlan populated devices
> > might have been prototype only.
> 
> Hmm OK. Well as it's a SDIO card, it seems safe to add for now.
> We may want to have a minimal separate dts file if the wiring is
> different with the COM8Q card.

Also I just noticed that WLAN will work with these only if omap_hsmmc
is a loadable module. That's probably because we're not yet claiming
the 32k clock for MMC3 directly yet. But that's a separate patch.

Regards,

Tony



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