CF8381

[Marek Vasut]

Dne Monday 07 of July 2008 19:33:57 Dan Williams napsal(a):
> 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.
Yea, I know there is two stage firmware for cf8385. I will have to look into 
it more.
>
> Dan