From: "Pali Rohár" <pali.rohar@gmail•com>
To: "Machani, Yaniv" <yanivma@ti•com>
Cc: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti•com>, "Balbi, Felipe" <balbi@ti•com>,
"Chalmers, Kevin" <kev@ti•com>, Shahar Levi <shahar_levi@ti•com>,
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David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead•org>,
Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw•cz>,
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Subject: Re: AP firmware for TI wl1251 wifi chip (wl1251-fw-ap.bin)
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2016 14:12:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201604061412.43684@pali> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AE1C82FB3D0EC64DB1F752C81CBD1101390F6305@DFRE01.ent.ti.com>
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On Wednesday 06 April 2016 13:30:22 Machani, Yaniv wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 04, 2016 at 15:39:44, Pali Rohár wrote:
> > > In linux-firmware repository [1] is missing AP firmware for TI
> > > wl1251 chip. There is only STA firmware wl1251-fw.bin which
> > > supports managed and ad-hoc modes.
> > >
> > > For other TI wilink chips there are <CHIP>-ap.bin firmware files
> > > (wl1271-fw-ap.bin and wl128x-fw-ap.bin) which support AP mode.
> > > But for
> > > wl1251 firmware file with guessed name "wl1251-fw-ap.bin" is
> > > missing.
> > >
> > > Do you have any idea what happened with AP firmware for ti
> > > wilink4 wl1251 wifi chip? Or where can be found? Guys from TI,
> > > can you help?
> > >
> > > I see that STA firmware was added into linux-firmware tree in
> > > year 2013 by this pull request [2].
> > >
> > > [1] -
> > > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmw
> > > are .g
> > > it/tree/ti-connectivity
> > >
> > > [2] -
> > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1566500/focus=1571382
> >
> > Hi! Anybody has some idea about that AP firmware?
>
> Hi,
> wl1251 does not support AP mode, so there is no firmware for it in
> the tree.
>
> Regards,
> Yaniv
Hi Yaniv! I read on some TI whitepaper, that wl1251 hardware supports
some Soft-AP mode. So I expect that either special FW is needed for it
or somehow it is possible to use current released. Do you have any
information about it?
--
Pali Rohár
pali.rohar@gmail•com
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-06 12:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-19 23:40 AP firmware for TI wl1251 wifi chip (wl1251-fw-ap.bin) Pali Rohár
2016-03-21 10:35 ` Kalle Valo
[not found] ` <878u1cglu3.fsf-HodKDYzPHsUD5k0oWYwrnHL1okKdlPRT@public.gmane.org>
2016-03-21 11:01 ` Pali Rohár
2016-04-04 12:39 ` Pali Rohár
2016-04-06 11:30 ` Machani, Yaniv
2016-04-06 12:12 ` Pali Rohár [this message]
2016-04-06 12:30 ` Machani, Yaniv
[not found] ` <AE1C82FB3D0EC64DB1F752C81CBD1101390F685E-1tpBd5JUCm6IQmiDNMet8wC/G2K4zDHf@public.gmane.org>
2016-04-06 19:07 ` Kalle Valo
[not found] ` <87lh4q4kuc.fsf-5ukZ45wKbUHoml4zekdYB16hYfS7NtTn@public.gmane.org>
2016-04-06 19:12 ` Machani, Yaniv
2016-04-10 11:51 ` Pavel Machek
2016-04-11 11:41 ` Pali Rohár
2016-04-11 11:49 ` Machani, Yaniv
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