On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 03:50:27PM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> That said, I consider the whole wifi-only firmware business is quite
> fragile. Can we have unified firmware and have driver figure out what
> part shoudl be [re]loaded?
+1. I think we should really give a stab at this first, and *then* see
how we want to patch up the flagging of support on a per-chipset basis.
As-is, you're wasting filesystem space on a duplicate firmware blob,
that we have to make sure gets updated in sync with the combined
firmware every time there's an update.
Proof of the duplicate blob -- the latter portion of the combined FW is
identical to the WLAN-only:
$ cmp mrvl/pcie{usb8997_combo,8997_wlan}_v4.bin $((0x2919c)); echo $?
0
Brian
