Marvell 86868 SDIO firmware loading failure

Maurus Cuelenaere mcuelenaere at gmail.com
Tue Oct 13 16:40:47 EDT 2009


Op 13-10-09 22:24, Dan Williams schreef:
> On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 21:10 +0200, Maurus Cuelenaere wrote:
>    
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm porting Linux 2.6.32 over to the SmartQ 7, an ARM11 MID running on the
>> Samsung S3C6410 SoC.
>>
>> The board has a Universal Scientific Industrial WM-G-MR-09 wifi chip (see [1]),
>> which has a Marvell 88W8686 as chipset (and is connected over SDIO).
>>
>> I've compiled the libertas drivers statically, but get these messages in the
>> kernel log:
>>
>> [   11.200000] libertas_sdio mmc2:0001:1: firmware: requesting sd8686.bin
>> [   18.880000] libertas: firmware wants 16 bytes
>> [   18.880000] libertas: firmware wants 512 bytes
>> [   18.970000] libertas: firmware wants 17 bytes
>> [   18.970000] libertas: firmware helper signalled error
>> [   19.050000] libertas: failed to load firmware
>>
>> (I'm using SD-8686-LINUX26-SYSKT-9.70.3.p24-26409.P45-GPL.zip, see [2])
>>      
> You're using that *driver*, or just the firmware from that driver
> tarball?
>    

Only sd8686.bin and sd8686_helper.bin

> What specific SDHC are you using?

This is a Samsung S3C6410 SDHCI, which follows AFAIK pretty much the 
SDHCI spec.

Regards,
Maurus Cuelenaere




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