Re: [PATCH v2] brcmfmac: Add support for BCM43596 PCIe Wi-Fi

[Konrad Dybcio]

On 07/12/2022 00:37, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 6, 2022 at 10:59 AM Konrad Dybcio <konrad.dybcio@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Yes, it does seem to work just fine! The kernel now looks for
> > brcm/brcmfmac4359c-pcie.sony,kagura-row.bin as we would expect.
>
> So the Sony kagura needs a special brcmfmac firmware like so many
> other mobile phones. There are a few Samsungs with custom firmware
> as well.
FWIW, Sony did a great job and agreed to license calibration files under 
CC0-1.0 [1] and the firmwares itself [2] have a Broadcom license 
attached to it.

Konrad

[1] 
https://github.com/sonyxperiadev/device-sony-kagura/commit/1f633325a3890864503b5e19f581d1b6a538996c
[2] 
https://github.com/sonyxperiadev/vendor-broadcom-wlan/tree/master/bcmdhd/firmware
> Arend: what is the legal situation with these custom firmwares?
>
> I was under the impression that Broadcom actually made these,
> so they could in theory be given permission for redistribution in
> linux-firmware?
>
> Some that I have are newer versions than what is in Linux-firmware,
> e.g this from linux-firmware:
>
> brcm/brcmfmac4330-sdio.bin
> 4330b2-roml/sdio-ag-pool-ccx-btamp-p2p-idsup-idauth-proptxstatus-pno-aoe-toe-pktfilter-keepalive
> Version: 5.90.125.104 CRC: 2570e6a3 Date: Tue 2011-10-25 19:34:26 PDT
>
> There is this found in Samsung Codina GT-I8160:
> 4330b2-roml/sdio-g-p2p-aoe-pktfilter-keepalive-pno-ccx-wepso Version:
> 5.99.10.0 CRC: 4f7fccf Date: Wed 2012-12-05 01:02:50 PST FWID
> 01-52653ba9
>
> Or:
> brcmfmac4334-sdio.bin
> 4334b1min-roml/sdio-ag-pno-p2p-ccx-extsup-proptxstatus-dmatxrc-rxov-pktfilter-keepalive-aoe-vsdb-wapi-wl11d
> Version: 6.10.0.0 CRC: 31410dd4 Date: Tue 2012-06-26 11:33:07 PDT FWID
> 01-8ee3be86
>
> There is this found in Samsung Golden GT-I8190N:
> 4334b1-roml/sdio-ag-p2p-extsup-aoe-pktfilter-keepalive-pno-dmatxrc-rxov-proptxstatus-vsdb-mchan-okc-rcc-fmc-wepso-txpwr-autoabn-sr
> Version: 6.10.58.99 CRC: 828f9174 Date: Mon 2013-08-26 02:13:44 PDT
> FWID 01-e39d4d77
>
> So in some cases more than a year newer firmware versions
> compared to linux-firmware, I guess also customized for the
> phones, but I can't really tell because we don't have anything
> of similar date in linux-firmware.
>
> Yours,
> Linus Walleij