[Letux-kernel] Kernel 4.5-rc3

[H. Nikolaus Schaller]

Am 08.02.2016 um 11:11 schrieb H. Nikolaus Schaller <hns at goldelico.com>:

> Hi,
> I have merged/rebased to kernel 4.5-rc3.
> No significant changes observed yet.

I have missed one very significant change:

	Display / OMAPDSS/DRM is working again. Not only on GTA04 but on the Pyra as well :)

So it was not our mistake but in rc1/2.

> 
> Except that I have fixed an issue with the twl4030-charger you maybe have not
> even been aware (one of Marek's patches submitted a while ago was neither
> upstream nor in our tree).
> 
> I have also upgraded the libertas patches, but for me it still does not find or install
> the firmware (I have the package from Debian 8.2):
> 
> [   15.390777] libertas_sdio: Libertas SDIO driver
> [   15.395599] libertas_sdio: Copyright Pierre Ossman
> [   15.400695] driver_register 'libertas_sdio'
> done.
> ^[[?1;0c[   15.860626] libertas_sdio: failed to load helper firmware
> 
> root at letux:~# cd /lib/firmware
> root at letux:/lib/firmware# find -name  "sd8686*" 
> ./libertas/sd8686_v9.bin
> ./libertas/sd8686_v9_helper.bin
> ./libertas/sd8686_v8_helper.bin
> ./libertas/sd8686_v8.bin
> ./sd8686.bin
> ./sd8686_helper.bin
> root at letux:/lib/firmware# ifconfig -a
> hso0      Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00  
>          POINTOPOINT NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:1486  Metric:1
>          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>          collisions:0 txqueuelen:10 
>          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
> 
> lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
>          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
>          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
>          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:65536  Metric:1
>          RX packets:96 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>          TX packets:96 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
>          RX bytes:9120 (8.9 KiB)  TX bytes:9120 (8.9 KiB)
> 
> usb0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 2a:72:e3:80:70:b2  
>          inet addr:192.168.0.202  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
>          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
> 
> root at letux:~# dpkg -l |fgrep libertas
> ii  firmware-libertas       0.43             all              Binary firmware for Marvell Libertas 8xxx wireless 
> ii  libertas-firmware       9.70.7.p0.0-2    all              Firmware for Marvell's libertas wireless chip serie
> root at letux:~# 
> 
> Probably I should look up the location of the "failed to load helper firmware" and try
> to printk() the file path and error message.
> 
> BR,
> Nikolaus
> 
> 
> 
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