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Re: [PATCH 0/2] ar9170: 1-stage firmware support / AVM fritz

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On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Marcel Holtmann<marcel@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Luis,
>
>> > > This series now works for me on my WNDA31000, it took a newer shiny
>> > > 1-stage firmware to work. I'll push the firmware into linux-firmware
>> > > next.
>> > >
>> > > Should work with the AVM Fritz devices now, haven't tested it but
>> > > I think it should work.
>> >
>> > I happened to have one of these AVM devices. With ar9170.fw firmware it
>> > does work fine with the other ones it doesn't.
>>
>> Excellent, that was the idea behind the patch, to enable these
>> devices. Thanks for testing.
>>
>> > The ar9170.fw is still not in linux-firmware.git, any reason for that?
>>
>> Yes, the patch I sent to David has some funk as objcopy to ihex seems
>> to have some trailing white space. I sent a new patch to him without
>> the ihex file though.
>>
>> > Also since ar9170-1.fw and ar9170-2.fw are not working at all,
>>
>> They work, they won't work for the AVM device though.
>>
>> > we better
>> > not even try and give the user a crypted error message that the device
>> > is in a bad state. Just printk that the firmware might be too old.
>>
>> Agreed, but as I sent the patch in we *require* the 1-stage firmware
>> for the AVM devices, if that is not present we should be bailing out.
>> Is that not what happens?
>
> nope, it tries ar9170-1.fw and then tries to load that and fails with a
> timeout (-110) and a weird message that the device might be in a bad
> state.

Oh interesting, hm, ok doe sit go into a loop with that?

  Luis
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