Re: AP firmware for TI wl1251 wifi chip (wl1251-fw-ap.bin)

From: Pali RohÃr
Date: Mon Apr 04 2016 - 08:39:56 EST


On Sunday 20 March 2016 00:40:25 Pali RohÃr wrote:
> Hi!
>
> 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-firmware.git/tree/ti-connectivity
>
> [2] - http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1566500/focus=1571382
>

Hi! Anybody has some idea about that AP firmware?

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