openwrt/package/firmware
Josef Schlehofer ed381e2fb2 linux-firmware: add support for Marvell SDIO 8997
For example, Turris MOX SDIO card is using Marvell (NXP) 88W8997 chip.

Technical specs of 88W8997:
- 28nm
- 802.11 ac wave-2
It should support simultaneous dual-band 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz,
but it requires to support multiSSID for one Wi-Fi card [1], which is
not supported in OpenWrt, yet and if we tried to run two instances of
hostapd, it didn't work well, so it's 2.4 GHz or 5 GHz.
- 2x2 MU-MIMO
- Bluetooth 5.1 with LE support
- Unfortunately, there can be connected only 8 clients at the same time
(limited by FW, however, there exists "enterprise" chip, its equal chip,
it is just different that it uses different FW)

Symlink is necessary as mwifiex_sdio tries to load sd8997_uapsta.bin
[   13.651182] mwifiex_sdio mmc0:0001:1: Direct firmware load for mrvl/sd8997_uapsta.bin failed with error -2
[   13.661065] mwifiex_sdio mmc0:0001:1: Falling back to user helper
[   13.684880] firmware mrvl!sd8997_uapsta.bin: firmware_loading_store: map pages failed
[   13.695910] mwifiex_sdio mmc0:0001:1: Failed to get firmware mrvl/sd8997_uapsta.bin
[   13.703774] mwifiex_sdio mmc0:0001:1: info: _mwifiex_fw_dpc: unregister device

Pali Rohár sent two patches [2] [3] into kernel to fix default firmware name for SD8997, so
the symlink will not be required in the future versions of kernel, which
was accepted and right now, according to my details it was backported to 5.8, 5.7 and 5.4

[1] https://bugs.openwrt.org/index.php?do=details&task_id=3243
[2] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?id=00eb0cb36fad5
[3] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?id=2e1fcac52a9ea

Signed-off-by: Josef Schlehofer <pepe.schlehofer@gmail.com>
2020-08-24 18:53:59 +02:00
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amd64-microcode Revert "amd64-microcode: create early load microcode image" 2018-11-27 18:58:33 +01:00
ath10k-ct-firmware ath10k-ct-firmware: update firmware images 2020-08-12 11:50:48 +02:00
ath10k-firmware ath10k-firmware: move CT firmwares to new package 2020-04-28 09:33:09 +02:00
b43legacy-firmware treewide: clean up download hashes 2016-12-16 22:39:22 +01:00
cypress-firmware cypress-firmware: add PROVIDES sections 2020-05-28 10:36:27 +02:00
cypress-nvram brcm2708: rename target to bcm27xx 2020-02-14 14:10:51 +01:00
intel-microcode firmware: intel-microcode: bump to 20190918 2019-11-10 23:39:29 +01:00
ipq-wifi ipq40xx: add support for Buffalo WTR-M2133HP 2020-07-08 16:07:05 +02:00
lantiq/dsl-vrx200-firmware-xdsl treewide: clean up download hashes 2016-12-16 22:39:22 +01:00
layerscape layerscape: harmonize device strings 2020-07-27 12:06:52 +02:00
linux-firmware linux-firmware: add support for Marvell SDIO 8997 2020-08-24 18:53:59 +02:00
prism54-firmware treewide: clean up download hashes 2016-12-16 22:39:22 +01:00
vsc73x5-ucode treewide: clean up download hashes 2016-12-16 22:39:22 +01:00
wireless-regdb wireless-regdb: bump to latest release 2020-04-29 2020-04-30 00:52:04 +02:00