linux-kernel - Re: sd8688 firmware location

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Message-ID: <1357771504.12030.59.camel@dcbw.foobar.com>
Date:	Wed, 09 Jan 2013 16:45:04 -0600
From:	Dan Williams <dcbw@...hat.com>
To:	Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@...sk>
Cc:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>,
	libertas-dev@...ts.infradead.org, linux-bluetooth@...r.kernel.org,
	Gustavo Padovan <gustavo@...ovan.org>,
	Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>,
	Johan Hedberg <johan.hedberg@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sd8688 firmware location

On Wed, 2013-01-09 at 00:56 +0100, Lubomir Rintel wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> btmrvl_sdio and libertas_sdio both use firmware files sd8688.bin and
> sd8688_helper.bin. In linux-firmware, they're present in libertas/ tree and
> (since 3d32a58b) libertas_sdio perfers loading it from there, while it is able
> to fallback to load it from linux-firmware root. btmrvl_sdio, on the other hand
> only looks in the root and ends up not being successful.
> 
> Obviously, there are two solutions to the problem -- either teach btmrvl_sdio
> to look into libertas/, or move the files in linux-firmware tree. I don't
> really have a strong preference, though it probably makes less sense to keep in
> in libertas/, since the bluetooth hardware is not really marketed as "Libertas."
> 
> I'm following up with patches to linux and linux-firmware and I'd be very
> thankful if you could pick one (not both of them).

So the BT part and the wifi part have different SDIO IDs; are they
actually connected separately to the SDIO bus?  Or is the chip only in
one mode at one time or something like that?  Is there a problem with
having both libertas and btmrvl loaded at the same time since they're
essentially the same chip?

I don't really mind moving stuff to mrvl/ out of libertas/ for these
devices, but I do want some backwards compat code in libertas for that.
Unless, of course, Marcel was talking about symlinks in the
linux-firmware git tree, which would be fine with me.  The important
point is that simply updating your linux-firmware package or install or
whatever *should not* result in a failed firmware load.

Dan

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