Hi Hans, > I've been working recently on adding support for serialport / > serdev attached brcm bt devices on more (x86) boards. > > This is going well in general, but I just noticed a problem > with this. > > Currently on for example both the Raspberry Pi 3 and the > Chuwi Vi8 Plus, we will load brcm/BCM43430A1.hcd as patchram > file. Ideally this file will be in linux-firmware (*) so things > will just work. > > But it turns out there are 2 different builds of the firmware, > one for boards which use a 26MHz crystal and one for boards which > use a 37.4Mhz crystal and guess what the RPi 3 uses 37.4Mhz > and the Chuwi Vi8 Plus 26Mhz. > > So this causes 2 problems: > > 1) We need a -xxmhz postfix to the firmware name I believe, > but this will break existing setups, so I guess we first > try to load with the postfix, and then fallback to the old > name? > > 2) A bigger problem is how to figure out which frequency we > need. The wifi driver knows this as there is an xtalfreq=26000 > or xtalfreq=37400 in the nvram file it loads. We could come > up with a mechanism to use this, but this will not be pretty and > it assumes that the uart attached bcm bt is always combined > with a wifi part which uses nvram from /lib/firmware. > > Looking at all the devices I'm aware of atm there is no > real heuristic for this, but if we only look at x86 we can > get away with a per chip default, which we set in the > bcm_uart_subver_table. > > So the direction I'm thinking in atm is: > > 1) Let hci_bcm.c tell btbcm.c which frequency to use, with an > option for it to pass "don't know use default" > > 2) For ARM allow setting the frequency through a devicetree property > which gets set on the serdev device-node (the node with the > "brcm,bcm43438-bt" compatible), with a fallback to the default > if not set. > > 3) On x86 rely on the defaults and if ever necessary use DMI > quirks to override > > Note for this to work, the default for the BCM43430A1.hcd needs > to be 26 MHz and the RPi needs to have an updated devicetree > setting the freq to 37.4. > > So what are your thoughts on this? we need to move towards a modalias:firmware file name mapping table so that you can also just put all the firmware files you find in the Windows driver into lib/firmware and stop worrying about it. That is what Windows actually does, the PnP ID maps to the firmware file. They do that even for USB. Some time ago, I have written code for that and seems like I need to dust this off since now it is needed. Here is what I had for /lib/firmware/brcm/bcmbtfw.map table that I used for testing. usb:v0930p0223* BCM20702A1_001.002.014.1483.1674.hex usb:v0A5Cp21E8* BCM20702A1_001.002.014.1443.1459.hex usb:v0A5Cp21EC* BCM20702A1_001.002.014.1443.1460.hex usb:v0B05p17CB* BCM20702A1_001.002.014.1443.1467.hex usb:v19FFp0239* BCM20702B0_002.001.014.0527.0557.hex And we can stick ACPI and DT modalias entries in there as well. In addition, I am really thinking we should let hci_bcm.c be what it is and move towards the btuart.c serdev only driver that I posted a few days ago. That way we can try to keep this clean and don’t have to deal with TTY line discipline legacy. Do you have a good reference for the Broadcom Windows driver that includes UART based devices. And I wonder if the Apple UART devices use ROM patching or if they are RAM based like their USB counterparts. Regards Marcel -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-bluetooth" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
