Return-path: Received: from mx07-00252a01.pphosted.com ([62.209.51.214]:15222 "EHLO mx07-00252a01.pphosted.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753059AbeENL4h (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 May 2018 07:56:37 -0400 Received: from pps.filterd (m0102628.ppops.net [127.0.0.1]) by mx07-00252a01.pphosted.com (8.16.0.22/8.16.0.22) with SMTP id w4EBtniL015033 for ; Mon, 14 May 2018 12:56:35 +0100 Received: from mail-wr0-f200.google.com (mail-wr0-f200.google.com [209.85.128.200]) by mx07-00252a01.pphosted.com with ESMTP id 2hwnp0s196-1 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128 verify=OK) for ; Mon, 14 May 2018 12:56:35 +0100 Received: by mail-wr0-f200.google.com with SMTP id 54-v6so9455071wrw.1 for ; Mon, 14 May 2018 04:56:35 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <944ad773-6a7a-17c5-1d7e-0a3d20173e1d@i2se.com> References: <1350822038.83583.1525284334972@email.1und1.de> <5AF945B8.3070801@broadcom.com> <944ad773-6a7a-17c5-1d7e-0a3d20173e1d@i2se.com> From: James Hughes Date: Mon, 14 May 2018 12:56:33 +0100 Message-ID: (sfid-20180514_135642_616353_23FEC7B4) Subject: Re: brcmfmac: Updating Broadcom/Cypress Wifi/BT firmware To: Stefan Wahren Cc: Arend van Spriel , Chi-Hsien Lin , Franky Lin , Hante Meuleman , Wright Feng , linux-wireless , Kevin Hilman Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 14 May 2018 at 10:52, Stefan Wahren wrote: > Hi Arend, > > Am 14.05.2018 um 10:15 schrieb Arend van Spriel: >> >> On 5/2/2018 8:05 PM, Stefan Wahren wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> i wanted to know, if there are any plans to update the Broadcom/Cypress >>> firmware under: >>> >>> >>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git >>> >>> As BCM2835 maintainer i'm interested in the following files: >>> >>> brcm/brcmfmac43430-sdio.bin >>> brcm/brcmfmac43455-sdio.bin >> >> >> To my knowledge (just checked ;-) ) these are already in the repository. > > > i know, but the subject was about updating. These files are from 2015/2016 > and contains a lot of issues (including CVE-2016-0801 CVE-2017-0561 > CVE-2017-9417). > > AFAIK the latest version of brcmfmac43430-sdio.bin was from October 2017 > [1]. > >> >>> brcm/brcmfmac43430-sdio.txt >> >> >> We do not distribute these .txt files aka nvram files as they are board >> specific and no good solution to express that in the filename. > > > Thanks for clarification > >> >>> brcm/BCM43430A1.hcd >> >> >> The BT side is not handled by us. Might be different within Cypress >> though. > > > Okay > >> >> Regards, >> Arend > > > [1] - https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/1342 > > Best regards > Stefan Just an an indicator, the Raspberry Pi supplied firmware, which I believe is now a standard build (no customisations) from the Cypress firmware source tree, is dated Oct 2017, so somewhat newer than that in firmware. It also has a some bug fixes in, Stefan has flagged some of the security ones, but there are others.