2015-02-25 12:23:36

by Jocky Wilson

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Subject: Re: brcmfmac43241b4-sdio / Thinkpad Tablet 10 issues

Sebastien Bourdeauducq <sb@...> writes:

>
> On Tuesday, February 17, 2015 03:49 AM, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> > So it is a one-off and not showing the issue you are seeing. Your issue
> > seems to be due to failing firmware so you may need b5 firmware.
>
> Making some progress :)
> ...
> I guess that the driver has bugs with decoding some of the data sent by
> the card.
>
I can confirm this with my Thinkpad Tablet 8
which has same chip revision.
Arend: do you need anything else to be tested?

/JockyW




2015-02-25 19:54:34

by Arend van Spriel

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Subject: Re: brcmfmac43241b4-sdio / Thinkpad Tablet 10 issues

On 02/25/15 13:23, Jocky Wilson wrote:
> Sebastien Bourdeauducq<sb@...> writes:
>
>>
>> On Tuesday, February 17, 2015 03:49 AM, Arend van Spriel wrote:
>>> So it is a one-off and not showing the issue you are seeing. Your issue
>>> seems to be due to failing firmware so you may need b5 firmware.
>>
>> Making some progress :)
>> ...
>> I guess that the driver has bugs with decoding some of the data sent by
>> the card.
>>
> I can confirm this with my Thinkpad Tablet 8
> which has same chip revision.
> Arend: do you need anything else to be tested?

Nope. As it turns out this chip revision indeed needs b5 firmware. As
windows and linux use different firmware we will need to release that to
linux-firmware and modify brcmfmac to pick it up properly. Keep an eye
out for those patches.

Regards,
Arend

> /JockyW
>
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