Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Community Build Radio Firmware

[ralphy]

ralphy wrote: 
> The 'Cyanogenmod url' (https://github.com/CyanogenMod/AR6kSDK.3.1) looks
> promising.  Thanks for that.
> 
> I'll investigate building the ar6000 driver module from that source. 
> Since it's loaded at boot time, we can replace the kernel module to try
> it without the need to flash a new firmware and a factory reset will
> revert the module to the stock version if things go badly.

Unfortunately, the cyanogenmod ar6000 module v3.1.1.734 doesn't support
the ar6002 in the radio...at least not my rev.7.  Module loads on the
radio but doesn't find the wifi hardware.


Code:
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    # cat /proc/cpuinfo | egrep '(Hardware|Revision)'
  Hardware      : Logitech MX25 Baby Board
  Revision      : 0007
  
  # cat /sys/class/mmc_host/mmc0/mmc0:0001/mmc0:0001:1/modalias 
  *sdio:c00v0271d0201*
--------------------



Code:
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    ralphy@poky:~$ modinfo 
~/source/squeezeos/poky/build/tmp-baby/work/baby-none-linux-gnueabi/atheros-ar6-module-src-3.1-r0/image/lib/atheros/ar6000.ko
  filename:       ar6000.ko
  license:        Dual BSD/GPL
  description:    Driver to access the AR600x Device, version 3.1.1.734
  author:         Qualcomm Atheros
  license:        Dual BSD/GPL
  description:    AR6K buffer pre-allocation
  author:         Qualcomm Atheros, Inc.
  alias:          *sdio:c*v0271d0301**
  alias:          *sdio:c*v0271d0300**
  depends:        
  vermagic:       2.6.26.8-rt16-dirty preempt mod_unload modversions ARMv5 
  
--------------------


The only other 'ar6k module sources I've found'
(https://github.com/openmoko/openmoko-svn/tree/master/src/target/AR6kSDK.build_sw.18)
are older .18 versus the '.62'
(https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?111663-Community-Build-Radio-Firmware&p=971241&viewfull=1#post971241)
used for the radio.



Ralphy

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