Héllo all, A quick reply, just to correct a mistype sentence about the issue ! Le 27/09/2021 à 15:47, Josh Boyer a écrit : > On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 6:43 AM Pali Rohár <pali@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hello Josh, Sharvari and other from NXP! >> >> On Saturday 25 September 2021 19:23:48 Gérald Kerma wrote: >>> Correcting old marvell address to new nxp... >>> >>> Le 25/09/2021 à 19:19, Gérald Kerma a écrit : >>>> Héllo All, >>>> >>>> I made some few tests on EspressoBin-Ultra from GlobalScaleTechnologies, >>>> because of problem with the WiFi. >>>> >>>> I have done some quick tests on all the firmware of PCIEUSB-8997 using >>>> the pcieuart8997_combo_v4.bin on OpenWrt 21.02.x >>>> >>>> Here is a summary of the tests : >>>> - W16.68.10.p159 = KO >>>> - W16.68.1.p195 = KO >>>> - V16.68.1.p145 = OK >>>> - 16.68.1.p140 = OK >>>> - 16.68.1.p133 = OK >>>> - 16.68.1.p97 = OK >>>> - 16.68.1.p70 = KO >> From this user test result can be seen that last two versions of >> pcieusb8997_combo_v4.bin firmware file for 8997 wifi+bt card with >> official mainline linux kernel driver mwifiex were not properly tested >> internally in NXP and are causing serious issues which make 8997 card >> basically unusable. >> >> Sharvari and other NXP developers: Do you have some internal testing of >> this pcieusb8997_combo_v4.bin firmware for PCIe+USB variant of 8997 >> wifi chips? Or are you aware of this issue and do you have in NXP some >> workaround for it (e.g. at driver level)? Could you please look at this >> serious issue and try to debug firmware and release a new version, as >> this is obvious fatal error in firmware itself? >> >> Josh, how you in linux-firmware repository handle such, I must say, >> "fatal issues"? Wait for vendor fixes or revert problematic commits? Or >> something else? > We can revert if we need to, but I think it's not quite that simple. > >> Because when users starts upgrading linux-firmware packages in their >> downstream distributions then basically wifi cards on this 8997 chips >> with official mwifiex driver stops working. > The first broken version was committed in Feb of 2019. That's > approaching 3 years ago. Given that this is binary firmware, I have > no idea what else may or may not be included in the updates in the > meantime. > > josh > >>>> REF (and all details of tests) : >>>> https://github.com/NXP/mwifiex-firmware/issues/1 >>>> >>>> >>>> Broken firmware : >>>> >>>> Version |W16.68.1.p195| of |pcieusb8997_combo_v4.bin| was included into >>>> linux-firmware repository by this pull request: >>>> https://lore.kernel.org/all/CA+5PVA5yQbjg3vaT7F8120B6ngLn7+sZC0OWt0KoUiQR9hS4FA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ >>>> <https://lore.kernel.org/all/CA+5PVA5yQbjg3vaT7F8120B6ngLn7+sZC0OWt0KoUiQR9hS4FA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/> >>>> >>>> And latest version |W16.68.10.p159| of |pcieusb8997_combo_v4.bin| by >>>> this pull request: >>>> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-firmware/CA+5PVA5on7+CRtEV7tThPxgucwt3W9i-tEXm4cgH-AmMB-Jrtg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ >>>> <https://lore.kernel.org/linux-firmware/CA+5PVA5on7+CRtEV7tThPxgucwt3W9i-tEXm4cgH-AmMB-Jrtg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/> >>>> >>>> Olders looks to works better. >>>> >>>> In quick tests, they allow more than 1 clients at a time ! In quick tests, they do *NOT* allow more than only 1 client at a time ! >>>> I am still testing the V16.68.1.p145 and report the results after some >>>> longer use... >>>> >>>> Hopes it will help... >>>> Regards, >>>> Gérald Kerma >>>> gandalf(at)gk2(dot)net Gérald
