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

Tony Lindgren tony at atomide.com
Fri Sep 18 09:51:09 PDT 2015


* 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"
> 
> 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.

Regards,

Tony



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