Marvell 86868 SDIO firmware loading failure

Maurus Cuelenaere mcuelenaere at gmail.com
Tue Oct 13 17:12:05 EDT 2009


On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 21:10 +0200, Maurus Cuelenaere wrote:
 > Hi,
 >
 > I'm porting Linux 2.6.32 over to the SmartQ 7, an ARM11 MID running 
on the
 > Samsung S3C6410 SoC.
 >
 > The board has a Universal Scientific Industrial WM-G-MR-09 wifi chip 
(see [1]),
 > which has a Marvell 88W8686 as chipset (and is connected over SDIO).
 >
 > I've compiled the libertas drivers statically, but get these messages 
in the
 > kernel log:
 >
 > [   11.200000] libertas_sdio mmc2:0001:1: firmware: requesting sd8686.bin
 > [   18.880000] libertas: firmware wants 16 bytes
 > [   18.880000] libertas: firmware wants 512 bytes
 > [   18.970000] libertas: firmware wants 17 bytes
 > [   18.970000] libertas: firmware helper signalled error
 > [   19.050000] libertas: failed to load firmware
 >
 > (I'm using SD-8686-LINUX26-SYSKT-9.70.3.p24-26409.P45-GPL.zip, see [2])
 > [1] - 
http://www.edom.com.tw/vender/product/WM-G-MR-09_Spec_v17_20071012.pdf
 > [2] - http://www.marvell.com/drivers/driverDisplay.do?driverId=203
 >
 > Any ideas?
 >
 > P.S.: I've attached the full dmesg log below
 >
 > P.P.S.: could you please CC me when replying as I disabled receiving 
messages
 > from this mailing list.
 >

Update:

I've tried sd8686_v{8,9}{,_helper}.bin from [1], but both gave the same 
error.

[1] - 
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/dwmw2/linux-firmware.git;a=shortlog

Regards,
Maurus Cuelenaere



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