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

Robert Nelson robertcnelson at gmail.com
Fri Sep 18 11:39:17 PDT 2015


On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 11:51 AM, Tony Lindgren <tony at atomide.com> wrote:
> * 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"

Okay, got an email back from svtronics, there was a special omap5_uevm
+ wlan order option for production units.

>>
>> 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.

Well we can take care of that as an device tree overlay. ;)

Regards,

-- 
Robert Nelson
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