RPi-3 brcmfmac errors on boot

Don Zickus dzickus at redhat.com
Tue Nov 29 14:18:57 PST 2016


On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 12:17:28PM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> On Mo, 2016-11-28 at 02:54 -0800, Michael Zoran wrote:
> > On Mon, 2016-11-28 at 10:51 +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> > > > As you know, these files are probably copyrighted so I don't know
> > > > if
> > > > this is for personal/testing use or if you are going to put it in a
> > > > distribution.  If you are going to put it in a distribution as you
> > > > know
> > > > you may need to get permission from somebody...
> > > 
> > > The legal side is sorted meanwhile, the firmware files are part of
> > > the
> > > linux-firmware distribution since a few months so all you need is a
> > > recent enough linux-firmware package.
> > 
> > Awsome!
> > 
> > Legal issues aside, were you able to get the wifi/bluetooth to work?
> > 
> > The Bluetooth does have a small downstream patch for bluez, but I think
> > if you get the correct pull ups on the pins the bluetooth should just
> > work.
> 
> Didn't try bluetooth.  Firmware loading and wifi used to work a while
> back.  Well at least the driver initialized.  Connection was unstable
> though, so I've switched to using ethernet instead.
> 
> When trying again on 4.9 I get the same firmware load error as Don.
> Kernel with the downstream brcm patch cherry-picked still building atm.

Hi Gerd,

I was trying your latest wifi-testing (recently rebased) branch.  I wanted
to play with the DMA stuff.  For some reason that isn't working for me.
Both the mmc0 and mmc1 are in PIO mode.

Looking at your code, I was curious why you are enabling DMA for the sdhost
controller (mmc card) instead of the SDHCI controller (wifi/bt)?

Cheers,
Don



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