On Mon, Dec 09, 2013 at 12:38:28PM +0300, Vasily Khoruzhick wrote: > On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 7:18 AM, James Cameron <quozl@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 01:40:00PM +0300, Vasily Khoruzhick wrote: > >> Out of curiosity, > >> > >> Does anyone know if it's possible to get thin firmware for 8686 with > >> SPI interface? > > > > What happens when you try? > > How? There's no tf available for 8686 with SPI interface. How do you know that? Are you saying that SPI support was removed from firmware during the conversion from fat to thin? > > How are you downloading firmware over SPI? > > See drivers/net/wireless/libertas/if_spi.c, but it's for fat > firmware What happens if you send the thin firmware instead? > > I'm not aware of a second stage firmware download helper specific to > > the SPI mode. > > What's a second stage firmware download helper? File sd8686_helper.bin, we use it in Open Firmware with SDIO 8686 on OLPC XO. For SPI, which we don't use, I see if_spi.c uses gspi8686_v9_helper.bin I was wrong; I am now aware of a second stage firmware downloader helper specific to the SPI mode. I hadn't looked before. > > I think it is not possible without firmware engineering. > > Yeah, just hoped that Marvell already did it. It's a pity that > firmware source code isn't available :( Cozybit did the thin firmware, if I recall correctly. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
