[OpenWrt-Devel] RESEND: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Add Raspberry Pi 3 support

[Arend van Spriel]

bounced on mailing list as my email address changed recently.

On 22-03-16 21:36, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> On 19-03-16 11:54, Hauke Mehrtens wrote:
>> Hi Arend,
>>
>> could you or someone else from Broadcom pleases add the firmware for the
>> BCM43430 SDIO to linux-firmware. This module is used in the Raspberry Pi
>> 3 and it would be a lot easer for distributions to have the firmware in
>> linux-firmware.
> 
> Oops. I thought it already was available. Will look into this.

The firmware can be found here [1] and there is license file. I am no
lawyer but it looks like it allows redistribution of the firmware.

Regards,
Arend

[1] https://github.com/RPi-Distro/firmware-nonfree/tree/master/brcm80211

> Regards,
> Arend
> 
>> Hauke
>>
>> On 03/08/2016 11:13 PM, Álvaro Fernández Rojas wrote:
>>> I've got WiFi and Bluetooth working:
>>> https://github.com/openwrt-es/openwrt/commits/brcm2708-rpi3-wifi
>>> https://github.com/openwrt-es/openwrt/commits/brcm2708-rpi3-bt
>>>
>>> WiFi is working after latest brcmfmac patches backported by Rafał, with
>>> some issues like the following:
>>> brcmfmac: brcmf_proto_bcdc_hdrpull: wlan0: non-BCDC packet received,
>>> flags 0x44
>>>
>>> BT is working but only for baud rates <= 115200. I'm still investigating
>>> why.
>>> In order to setup the bluetooth, the following bluez patches are needed:
>>> https://github.com/openwrt/packages/pull/2464
>>>
>>> By the way, I won't be submitting any WiFi/BT patches until anyone from
>>> either the Raspberry foundation or Broadcom clarifies the license of the
>>> firmware files.
>>> https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/1325
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Álvaro.
>>>
>>> El 04/03/2016 a las 21:06, Álvaro Fernández Rojas escribió:
>>>> These patches add basic Raspberry Pi 3 support.
>>>>
>>>> Bootlog:
>>>> https://gist.github.com/Noltari/92f51259c9d18506192b#file-bcm2710_rpi3-log
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Known issues:
>>>> 1) No ARMv8 64 bit support.
>>>>   More info:
>>>>   https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/issues/550
>>>> 2) UART0 is connected to BCM43430 (Bluetooth), which means that
>>>> console relies on UART1.
>>>>   UART1 clock depends on pll_freq, which changes depending on the core
>>>> frequency.
>>>>   In order to get a proper console through GPIOs 14 & 15, you should
>>>> force a fixed frequency instead of the default dynamic one.
>>>>   You can do that by either setting core_freq=250 on config.txt or
>>>> force_turbo=1 (this last option will run your rpi at maximum frequency
>>>> so be careful).
>>>>   The framebuffer console (HDMI) isn't affected so you can use that
>>>> one with an external keyboard and USB HID package.
>>>>   More info:
>>>>   https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/issues/553
>>>>   https://github.com/RPi-Distro/repo/issues/22
>>>> 3) No WiFi support.
>>>>   brcmfmac43430-sdio.bin / brcmfmac43430-sdio.txt firmware files
>>>> aren't available on linux-firmware for now.
>>>>   Downloading those files from
>>>> https://github.com/RPi-Distro/firmware-nonfree and trying to enable
>>>> BCM43430 SDIO WiFi causes the following kernel exception:
>>>>  
>>>> https://gist.github.com/Noltari/92f51259c9d18506192b#file-bcm2710_rpi3_brcmfmac-log
>>>>
>>>> 4) No Bluetooth support.
>>>>
>>
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