Status update for 8686 SDIO on AT91SAM9263?

Dan Williams dcbw at redhat.com
Thu May 22 18:30:34 EDT 2008


On Thu, 2008-05-22 at 16:17 -0600, Simon Twogood wrote:
> I'm using 2.6.25 (Linus' git tree) with the AT91 patch
> 2.6.25-at91.patch.gz from linux4sam.org (site seems down right now so I
> can't get the direct URL).
> 
> I have the 8686.bin and corresponding helper firmware in the correct
> place as far as I can tell, but I'm not sure what version the firmware
> is. Is there some way to extract that information from the two binary
> files?

Yikes; that means your stage2 firmware probably isn't booting or isn't
able to receive commands or trigger interrupts.  Do both firmware
downloads go OK?

Dan

> Thanks for the help Hans.
> 
> 
> Simon
> 
> On Thu, 2008-05-22 at 23:31 +0200, Hans J. Koch wrote:
> > On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 01:55:06PM -0600, Simon Twogood wrote:
> > > Hi all, I'm attempting to use an 8686 chip from Wi2Wi with SDIO on the
> > > AT91SAM9263 and I'm running into an error. I found the following thread
> > > which is very similar:
> > > 
> > > http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/libertas-dev/2008-January/001145.html
> > > 
> > > In my case, the error is 'libertas: Command 3 timed out'.
> > > 
> > > Should I attempt to apply the patches provided in the above thread, or
> > > is my error the result of some other problem?
> > 
> > Hi Simon,
> > what kernel are you using? Actually, I hoped that these patches made it
> > into mainline after being confirmed by several users. I didn't check,
> > though, as I didn't upgrade this project's kernel since then.
> > 
> > I remember the problem was not a libertas issue, but an SDIO problem.
> > There was this padding-to-multiples-of-4 patch where people didn't agree
> > who should apply it...
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Hans
> > 
> > 
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