[Buildroot] [PATCH 0/4] Pull in WILC Wi-Fi updates

* [Buildroot] [PATCH 0/4] Pull in WILC Wi-Fi updates
@ 2022-03-24 20:20 Kris Bahnsen via buildroot
  2022-03-24 20:20 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/4] package/wilc1000-firmware: bump to 15.6 Kris Bahnsen via buildroot
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From: Kris Bahnsen via buildroot @ 2022-03-24 20:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: buildroot
  Cc: Eugen Hristev, Ludovic Desroches, Mark Featherston,
	Thomas Petazzoni, Kris Bahnsen

This series bumps WILC1000/3000 firmware to the latest available from
Microchip, updates existing defconfig files to include both WILC1000
and WILC3000 blobs, and adds a package to build the wilc driver as
an external kernel module.

The previous wilc1000-firmware package was extremely outdated, no longer
available on github, and installed the firmware files to the wrong
location for the current upstream kernel wilc1000 driver and Microchip's
separately maintained driver.

Since the firmware change includes individual WILC1000 and WILC3000
config options, this package is renamed to wilc-firmware.

The defconfigs of all platforms that used WILC1000 firmware were
touched to also include WILC3000 firmware. They either natively
have WILC3000 or can support either WILC1000/WILC3000 being connected
to these platforms.

I've attempted to test the firmware changes against
microchip_sama5d27_wlsom1_ek_mmc_dev_defconfig as this is a board I
have in my possession. However, the defconfig appears broken (Microchip
now maintains the evk in their own BR2_EXTERNAL repo):

...
Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,115200 initrd=0x21100000,25165824 root=/dev/ram0 rw
...
RAMDISK: Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0.
mmc0: new ultra high speed DDR50 SDHC card at address aaaa
List of all partitions:
...
Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(1,0)
CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper Not tainted 5.10.80-linux4microchip-2021.10 #1
Hardware name: Atmel SAMA5
Function entered at [<c010c0fc>] from [<c010974c>]
Function entered at [<c010974c>] from [<c087e37c>]
Function entered at [<c087e37c>] from [<c0b014bc>]
Function entered at [<c0b014bc>] from [<c0b01788>]
Function entered at [<c0b01788>] from [<c08872c0>]
Function entered at [<c08872c0>] from [<c0100148>]
Exception stack(0xc2c29fb0 to 0xc2c29ff8)
9fa0:                                     00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
9fc0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
9fe0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000013 00000000
---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(1,0) ]---

The firmware and driver changes have been thoroughly tested, however,
on an embeddedTS platform (BR patch for this in the future, waiting on
kernel accepting FDT) that includes the WILC3000 device. We have a number
of platforms that all use this same device and are starting to push for
better upstream support overall. So this patch series is us laying the
groundwork for that.

Kris Bahnsen (4):
  package/wilc1000-firmware: bump to 15.6
  package/wilc-firmware: rename from wilc1000-firmware
  configs: add WILC3000_FIRMWARE to compatible devices
  package/wilc-driver: new package

 DEVELOPERS                                         |  6 ++-
 configs/at91sam9x5ek_dev_defconfig                 |  1 +
 configs/at91sam9x5ek_mmc_dev_defconfig             |  1 +
 configs/atmel_sama5d27_som1_ek_mmc_dev_defconfig   |  1 +
 configs/atmel_sama5d2_xplained_mmc_dev_defconfig   |  1 +
 configs/atmel_sama5d3_xplained_dev_defconfig       |  1 +
 configs/atmel_sama5d3_xplained_mmc_dev_defconfig   |  1 +
 configs/atmel_sama5d4_xplained_dev_defconfig       |  1 +
 configs/atmel_sama5d4_xplained_mmc_dev_defconfig   |  1 +
 configs/microchip_sam9x60ek_mmc_dev_defconfig      |  1 +
 .../microchip_sama5d27_wlsom1_ek_mmc_dev_defconfig |  1 +
 configs/microchip_sama5d2_icp_mmc_dev_defconfig    |  1 +
 configs/microchip_sama7g5ek_mmc_dev_defconfig      |  1 +
 package/Config.in                                  |  3 +-
 package/wilc-driver/Config.in                      | 58 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 package/wilc-driver/wilc-driver.hash               |  2 +
 package/wilc-driver/wilc-driver.mk                 | 29 +++++++++++
 package/wilc-firmware/Config.in                    | 29 +++++++++++
 package/wilc-firmware/wilc-firmware.hash           |  2 +
 package/wilc-firmware/wilc-firmware.mk             | 34 +++++++++++++
 package/wilc1000-firmware/Config.in                |  6 ---
 package/wilc1000-firmware/wilc1000-firmware.hash   |  2 -
 package/wilc1000-firmware/wilc1000-firmware.mk     | 24 ---------
 23 files changed, 173 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 package/wilc-driver/Config.in
 create mode 100644 package/wilc-driver/wilc-driver.hash
 create mode 100644 package/wilc-driver/wilc-driver.mk
 create mode 100644 package/wilc-firmware/Config.in
 create mode 100644 package/wilc-firmware/wilc-firmware.hash
 create mode 100644 package/wilc-firmware/wilc-firmware.mk
 delete mode 100644 package/wilc1000-firmware/Config.in
 delete mode 100644 package/wilc1000-firmware/wilc1000-firmware.hash
 delete mode 100644 package/wilc1000-firmware/wilc1000-firmware.mk

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