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Re: brcmfmac: Updating Broadcom/Cypress Wifi/BT firmware

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On 14 May 2018 at 10:52, Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Arend,
>
> Am 14.05.2018 um 10:15 schrieb Arend van Spriel:
>>
>> On 5/2/2018 8:05 PM, Stefan Wahren wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>> i wanted to know, if there are any plans to update the Broadcom/Cypress
>>> firmware under:
>>>
>>>
>>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git
>>>
>>> As BCM2835 maintainer i'm interested in the following files:
>>>
>>> brcm/brcmfmac43430-sdio.bin
>>> brcm/brcmfmac43455-sdio.bin
>>
>>
>> To my knowledge (just checked ;-) ) these are already in the repository.
>
>
> i know, but the subject was about updating. These files are from 2015/2016
> and contains a lot of issues (including CVE-2016-0801 CVE-2017-0561
> CVE-2017-9417).
>
> AFAIK the latest version of brcmfmac43430-sdio.bin was from October 2017
> [1].
>
>>
>>> brcm/brcmfmac43430-sdio.txt
>>
>>
>> We do not distribute these .txt files aka nvram files as they are board
>> specific and no good solution to express that in the filename.
>
>
> Thanks for clarification
>
>>
>>> brcm/BCM43430A1.hcd
>>
>>
>> The BT side is not handled by us. Might be different within Cypress
>> though.
>
>
> Okay
>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Arend
>
>
> [1] - https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/1342
>
> Best regards
> Stefan


Just an an indicator, the Raspberry Pi supplied firmware, which I
believe is now a standard build (no customisations) from the Cypress
firmware source tree, is dated Oct 2017, so somewhat newer than that
in firmware. It also has a some bug fixes in, Stefan has flagged
some of the security ones, but there are others.



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