Marvell W8686 chipset Blackfin problem

Dan Williams dcbw at redhat.com
Fri Jul 23 15:41:41 EDT 2010


On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 09:46 -0400, Jonathan dumaresq wrote:
> libertas-dev-bounces at lists.infradead.org wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I have something semi-working. I have change the SPI_MODE3 to
> > SPI_MOD0 and now I get the module connect to the libertas_spi. 
> 
> > 
> > When I attemp th eload the module, I got this output:
> > 
> > root:/> modprobe libertas_spi
> > libertas_spi: Libertas SPI driver
> > libertas_spi spi0.18: firmware: requesting libertas/gspi8686_hlp.bin
> > libertas_spi spi0.18: firmware: requesting libertas/gspi8686.bin
> > libertas: spu_wait_for_u16: timeout with val=00, target_mask=00,
> > target=00  
> > libertas: if_spi_prog_main_firmware: timed out waiting for initial
> > scratch reg = 0 
> > libertas: failed to load firmware (err=-110)
> > libertas_spi: probe of spi0.18 failed with error -110
> 
> I found it. I had use the cozibit firmware and everything worked. I have no
> idea why, but now everything is working.

So which firmware are you using now that works?  The gspi firmware from
the linux-firmware git tree are ones I pulled off Marvell's Extranet a
while back and AFAIK are working but I don't have SPI hardware to test
with (only CF, USB, and SDIO).

Dan





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