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Broadcom SDIO firmware used with LibreELEC
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brcm: Add new BT & Wifi firmware required by OrangePI3 #6

Closed gatuno closed 5 years ago

gatuno commented 5 years ago

Hi

I'm currently working in trying to make LibreElec port to Orange PI 3. Is a work in progress try-and-error. Please add this firmware that is needed for bluetooth and wifi Orange PI 3 drivers.

Firmware was obtained from here: https://github.com/orangepi-xunlong/OrangePiH6_external/tree/master/ap6256

jernejsk commented 5 years ago

Does bluetooth really work? Last time I checked mainline kernel didn't support H6 RTC, which is needed for 32kHz clock required by WiFi/BT module.

Anyway, I'll get OPi 3 soon too, so we can work on this together.

gatuno commented 5 years ago

I will test bluetooth today. I'm not using mainline kernel, I'm using the kernel that Armbian is using. I think that the "symbolic file" is also needed (not sure, I just put the 4 files in there and wifi started working)

jernejsk commented 5 years ago

You know that no external kernels will be accepted? LE uses vanilla kernel (5.1.0 as of now) with additional patches on top. If you port Armbian patches here, then fine. Since OrangePi 3 support is not included in any kernel release, it has to be added in form of patches.

gatuno commented 5 years ago

I did not know about the kernel. In first place I want to make a proof of working. I would like to help to port the Armbian patches.

Right now I'm dealing with the famous 'reboot' bug... and the video gpu...

gatuno commented 5 years ago

Bluetooth doesn't work, but at least is detected and show as device hci0. The command hciconfig hci0 up doesn't bring up the interface. Wifi at least is working.

jernejsk commented 5 years ago

As expected. RTC driver needs to be extended with H6 support. Wifi works good? Can you paste dmesg? If everything seems right, I'll merge BT firmware too, but please remove brcmfmac43456-sdio.txt because it's not needed.

gatuno commented 5 years ago

dmesg output https://gist.github.com/gatuno/cbd48674d60ea1b016260007e955622c

jernejsk commented 5 years ago

ok, seems fine. We'll work on H6 RTC driver later.