From: Konrad Dybcio <konrad.dybcio@linaro.org>
To: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] brcmfmac: Add support for BCM43596 PCIe Wi-Fi
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2022 09:57:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0a340c21-7794-dd50-0e5c-90abb37423f2@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACRpkdbNssF5c7oJnm-EbjAJnD25kv2V7wp+TCKQZnVHJsni-g@mail.gmail.com>
On 07/12/2022 00:37, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 6, 2022 at 10:59 AM Konrad Dybcio <konrad.dybcio@linaro.org> wrote:
>
>> Yes, it does seem to work just fine! The kernel now looks for
>> brcm/brcmfmac4359c-pcie.sony,kagura-row.bin as we would expect.
>
> So the Sony kagura needs a special brcmfmac firmware like so many
> other mobile phones. There are a few Samsungs with custom firmware
> as well.
FWIW, Sony did a great job and agreed to license calibration files under
CC0-1.0 [1] and the firmwares itself [2] have a Broadcom license
attached to it.
Konrad
[1]
https://github.com/sonyxperiadev/device-sony-kagura/commit/1f633325a3890864503b5e19f581d1b6a538996c
[2]
https://github.com/sonyxperiadev/vendor-broadcom-wlan/tree/master/bcmdhd/firmware
>
> Arend: what is the legal situation with these custom firmwares?
>
> I was under the impression that Broadcom actually made these,
> so they could in theory be given permission for redistribution in
> linux-firmware?
>
> Some that I have are newer versions than what is in Linux-firmware,
> e.g this from linux-firmware:
>
> brcm/brcmfmac4330-sdio.bin
> 4330b2-roml/sdio-ag-pool-ccx-btamp-p2p-idsup-idauth-proptxstatus-pno-aoe-toe-pktfilter-keepalive
> Version: 5.90.125.104 CRC: 2570e6a3 Date: Tue 2011-10-25 19:34:26 PDT
>
> There is this found in Samsung Codina GT-I8160:
> 4330b2-roml/sdio-g-p2p-aoe-pktfilter-keepalive-pno-ccx-wepso Version:
> 5.99.10.0 CRC: 4f7fccf Date: Wed 2012-12-05 01:02:50 PST FWID
> 01-52653ba9
>
> Or:
> brcmfmac4334-sdio.bin
> 4334b1min-roml/sdio-ag-pno-p2p-ccx-extsup-proptxstatus-dmatxrc-rxov-pktfilter-keepalive-aoe-vsdb-wapi-wl11d
> Version: 6.10.0.0 CRC: 31410dd4 Date: Tue 2012-06-26 11:33:07 PDT FWID
> 01-8ee3be86
>
> There is this found in Samsung Golden GT-I8190N:
> 4334b1-roml/sdio-ag-p2p-extsup-aoe-pktfilter-keepalive-pno-dmatxrc-rxov-proptxstatus-vsdb-mchan-okc-rcc-fmc-wepso-txpwr-autoabn-sr
> Version: 6.10.58.99 CRC: 828f9174 Date: Mon 2013-08-26 02:13:44 PDT
> FWID 01-e39d4d77
>
> So in some cases more than a year newer firmware versions
> compared to linux-firmware, I guess also customized for the
> phones, but I can't really tell because we don't have anything
> of similar date in linux-firmware.
>
> Yours,
> Linus Walleij
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-12-07 8:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-09-21 0:16 [PATCH v2] brcmfmac: Add support for BCM43596 PCIe Wi-Fi Konrad Dybcio
2022-09-21 4:37 ` Hector Martin
2022-09-21 21:26 ` Konrad Dybcio
2022-09-22 6:40 ` Hector Martin
2022-09-22 10:21 ` Konrad Dybcio
2022-09-22 13:02 ` Linus Walleij
2022-09-22 13:08 ` Hector Martin
2022-09-22 13:30 ` Alvin Šipraga
2022-09-22 20:18 ` Linus Walleij
2022-09-26 8:20 ` Stockholm syndrome with Linux wireless? Kalle Valo
2022-09-26 8:59 ` Russell King (Oracle)
2022-10-03 19:40 ` Linus Walleij
2022-10-20 14:09 ` Linus Walleij
2022-10-20 14:44 ` Dave Taht
2022-09-26 9:27 ` [PATCH v2] brcmfmac: Add support for BCM43596 PCIe Wi-Fi Kalle Valo
2022-11-18 16:47 ` Konrad Dybcio
2022-11-21 13:56 ` Linus Walleij
2022-11-25 11:42 ` Konrad Dybcio
2022-11-25 11:53 ` Kalle Valo
2022-11-25 12:10 ` Konrad Dybcio
2022-11-25 12:25 ` Kalle Valo
2022-11-26 21:45 ` Linus Walleij
2022-11-28 11:17 ` Kalle Valo
2022-11-28 14:40 ` Konrad Dybcio
2022-11-29 9:19 ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2022-12-01 11:31 ` Arend van Spriel
2022-12-02 10:33 ` Konrad Dybcio
2022-12-02 15:26 ` Arend van Spriel
2022-12-02 19:28 ` Arend Van Spriel
2022-12-06 9:58 ` Konrad Dybcio
2022-12-06 11:22 ` Arend van Spriel
2022-12-07 10:12 ` Konrad Dybcio
2022-12-06 23:37 ` Linus Walleij
2022-12-07 7:41 ` Arend Van Spriel
2022-12-07 13:42 ` Linus Walleij
2022-12-07 22:26 ` Arend van Spriel
2022-12-07 8:57 ` Konrad Dybcio [this message]
2022-12-07 11:10 ` Arend van Spriel
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