CF8381

[Dan Williams]

On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 18:58 +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
> Dne Monday 07 of July 2008 18:44:56 Dan Williams napsal(a):
> > On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 12:22 +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > I was finally able to get CF8381 working at least. For now I have to
> > > enable wifi in palmos and then boot. Seems like the firmware cant be
> > > loaded by the driver yet. The only change to the driver as adding CardID
> > > 0x02db 0x6064 and commenting out loading of real firmware.
> > >
> > > See this two articles here:
> > > http://hackndev.com/node/179
> > > http://hackndev.com/node/180
> >
> > That's pretty cool.  Do you actually have firmware for the 8381, and if
> > so, what version is it?
> >
> > Dan
> 
> yea, it can be extracted from palmos. It's usual palmos database file so there 
> is no problem with extracting it's content at all.
> 
> Since I dont have the device here, I'm posting quote from openmoko wiki which 
> I wrote there some time ago ( 
> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/WiFi_support_in_OpenMoko )
> WLAN6064EB - IEEE 802.11b Embedded Module - Uses Marvell chipset - 88W8381PN, 
> Used in Palm TX (fw 4.102.p0-122 from 2005/08/30, size 82876 bytes, fw stored 
> in 8381Fw.pdb), PN means it uses RF8015 RF chip, while P-only stands for 
> RF8010. 

Ouch, 4.x firmware.  I have no idea what capabilities it has or how it
compares to the 5.x firmware.  But if it mostly works we could add
support for it, perhaps.  Can the firmware be split into the helper and
the main firmware?  Perhaps that's the problem here.  The CF and SDIO
firmware load processes require 2 firmware versions, a small firmware
loader that knows how to load the main firmware, and the main firmware
itself.

Dan