UBUNTU: Add symlinks to broadcom firmware files
On 03/18/2011 01:48 PM, Leann Ogasawara wrote:
On Fri, 2011-03-18 at 13:02 -0600, Tim Gardner wrote:
On 03/18/2011 12:02 PM, Leann Ogasawara wrote:
BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/728746
The brcm80211 module tries to load non-existent firmware and thus throws
the following type of error:
brcm80211: fail to load firmware brcm/bcm43xx-0.fw
brcm80211: Failed to find firmware usually in /lib/firmware/brcm
The necessary firmware is actually available at:
/lib/firmware/brcm/bcm43xx-0-610-809-0.fw
/lib/firmware/brcm/bcm43xx_hdr-0-610-809-0.fw
Adding symlinks to the proper files resolves the issue and has been
confirmed by the bug reporter to allow the driver/device to operate as
expected.
While symlinks will solve this particular problem, its not the way the
rest of the firmware files are used. I think we should simply rename the
firmware file to what the driver is expecting. That way its clear on the
next update that you have to rename your incoming versioned file to
something the driver can load (bcm43xx-0.fw for example). Its also
consistent with the way the rest of the firmware files are handled. We
also keep track of the firmware version number in WHENCE.
Sounds reasonable to me. The updated pull request below renames the
files rather than creating symlinks.
The following changes since commit bd96ae379112b379396a2c1da83601932236f18e:
Ubuntu-1.48 (2011-03-03 07:55:43 -0700)
are available in the git repository at:
git://kernel.ubuntu.com/ogasawara/linux-firmware.git lp728746v2
Leann Ogasawara (1):
UBUNTU: Rename bcm43xx Broadcom Firmware Files
brcm/{bcm43xx-0-610-809-0.fw => bcm43xx-0.fw} | Bin 97376 -> 97376 bytes
...bcm43xx_hdr-0-610-809-0.fw => bcm43xx_hdr-0.fw} | Bin 180 -> 180 bytes
2 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
rename brcm/{bcm43xx-0-610-809-0.fw => bcm43xx-0.fw} (100%)
rename brcm/{bcm43xx_hdr-0-610-809-0.fw => bcm43xx_hdr-0.fw} (100%)
Applied and uploaded
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Tim Gardner tim.gardner@canonical.com
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