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Hi Arend,

On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 5:51 PM, Arend van Spriel
<arend.vanspriel@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 27-07-16 00:35, Fabio Estevam wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On a imx6sl-warp board with a brcm4330 I get the following results
>> depending on the kernel version:
>>
>> - Kernel 4.4.15: place brcmfmac4330-sdio.bin and brcmfmac4330-sdio.txt
>> in the rootfs and the kernel is able to read them correctly. wlan0 is
>> present. All is fine.
>>
>> - Kernel 4.5.7: place brcmfmac4330-sdio.bin brcmfmac4330-sdio.txt in
>> the rootfs and the kernel fails to load them:
>>
>> brcmfmac mmc1:0001:1: Direct firmware load for
>> brcm/brcmfmac4330-sdio.bin failed with error -2
>>
>> Then I build brcmfmac4330-sdio.bin brcmfmac4330-sdio.txt into the
>> kernel and then firmware is detected and wlan0 appears.
>>
>> - Kernel 4.7: I can place the firmware and nvram file into the rootfs
>> or built-i and the following error is seen:
>>
>> brcmfmac: brcmf_sdio_htclk: HT Avail timeout (1000000): clkctl 0x50
>> brcmfmac: brcmf_sdio_htclk: HT Avail timeout (1000000): clkctl 0x50
>> brcmfmac: brcmf_sdio_htclk: HT Avail timeout (1000000): clkctl 0x50
>>
>> So wlan0 never appears here.
>>
>> Does anyone have any suggestions about these different behaviours?
>
> So for all kernel you have brcmfmac built-in the kernel or as a module?

In all these tests I have brcmfmac built-in the kernel.

Thanks,

Fabio Estevam
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