Return-path: Received: from mail-pa0-f46.google.com ([209.85.220.46]:33576 "EHLO mail-pa0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751436AbcEIJlG (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 May 2016 05:41:06 -0400 Received: by mail-pa0-f46.google.com with SMTP id xk12so71387824pac.0 for ; Mon, 09 May 2016 02:41:06 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: Planned Support for BCM 43162 [14e4:43ae] rev 02 ? To: =?UTF-8?B?UmFmYcWCIE1pxYJlY2tp?= , Jan Sobotka , brcm80211 development References: <3Fn.2TId.FHuvjLBV4z.1NAsIY@seznam.cz> <75r.2THk.1aVrEGdo1ry.1N96yR@seznam.cz> <3L}.2TJP.BPtk86KPbh.1NAtDW@seznam.cz> Cc: b43-dev , "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" From: Arend Van Spriel Message-ID: <57305B23.4030101@broadcom.com> (sfid-20160509_114111_400707_59EA51E4) Date: Mon, 9 May 2016 11:40:51 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 6-5-2016 2:03, Rafał Miłecki wrote: > On 5 May 2016 at 18:22, Jan Sobotka wrote: >> Great, now it works. Output: >> >> root@chobot-lenovo-laptop:/home/chobot# echo "14e4 43ae" > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/bcma-pci-bridge/new_id >> root@chobot-lenovo-laptop:/home/chobot# dmesg | egrep "bcma|b43" >> [ 5295.114902] bcma: bus0: Found chip with id 0x4335, rev 0x02 and package 0x01 >> [ 5295.114950] bcma: bus0: Core 0 found: ChipCommon (manuf 0x4BF, id 0x800, rev 0x2E, class 0x0) >> [ 5295.114974] bcma: bus0: Core 1 found: IEEE 802.11 (manuf 0x4BF, id 0x812, rev 0x2E, class 0x0) >> [ 5295.115026] bcma: bus0: Core 2 found: ARM CR4 (manuf 0x4BF, id 0x83E, rev 0x04, class 0x0) >> [ 5295.115073] bcma: bus0: Core 3 found: PCIe Gen2 (manuf 0x4BF, id 0x83C, rev 0x04, class 0x0) >> [ 5295.115096] bcma: bus0: Core 4 found: USB 2.0 Device (manuf 0x4BF, id 0x81A, rev 0x14, class 0x0) >> [ 5295.115119] bcma: bus0: Core 5 found: SDIO Device (manuf 0x4BF, id 0x829, rev 0x15, class 0x0) >> [ 5295.115170] bcma: bus0: Bridge found >> [ 5295.115221] bcma-pci-bridge: probe of 0000:02:00.0 failed with error -84 > > So this is device with BCM4335 chipset which is a FullMAC one AFAIK. > It may be supported by brcmfmac. There is already support for BCM4335 > in brcmfmac but it was developed for SDIO devices only. I don't think > we ever met BCM4335 on PCIe device. It does have an ARM core, but for fullmac we need RAM as well and I don't see that listed. So I guess it is a 43162 and needs softmac driver. Also could not find any fullmac firmware for it. The only thing I found was a hybrid wl driver release for it. Regards, Arend > You may try: > sudo su > rmmod bcma > echo "14e4 43ae" > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/brcmfmac/new_id > dmesg | grep brcmfmac > > However I think brcmfmac may need some extra changes to support > BCM4335 on PCIe. Lets also see if Broadcom team can help us with this. >