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Re: [PATCH] wl1251: halt the embedded CPU before loading firmware

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Bob Copeland <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> After initial power-up, the embedded cpu is usually halted.  However,
> if we down the interface and only do a soft reset before bringing
> the interface back up, it will still be running and the firmware
> loading code will bail out.  This change halts the CPU before loading
> the firmware, enabling a second call to wl1251_boot() to succeed
> without a hard reset.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@xxxxxxxxx>

(Even though  the patch is already in wireless-testing.)

> Hi Kalle,

Hi Bob,

sorry for the long delay. Last few weeks has been crazy :)

> Thoughts on this?  It fixes my remaining issue with warm card reset.
> I think Android code does this in the firmware loader:

I'm fine with this. I tested the patch with spi and it works fine.

Thanks again.

-- 
Kalle Valo
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