Bug#908438: cubietruck wifi reversion

[Romain Perier <romain.perier@gmail.com>]

Hello,

Could you retry with linux-image-4.18.0-1-armmp-lpae, please ?

Thanks,
Regards,
Romain

On Sun, Sep 09, 2018 at 06:24:41PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Source: linux
> Version: 4.17.17-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> On a cubietruck board, the linux-image-4.17.0-3-armmp-lpae kernel kernel
> fails to enable the builtin wifi:
> 
> Sep 09 17:52:52 honeybee kernel: brcmfmac: brcmf_fw_alloc_request: using brcm/brcmfmac43362-sdio for chip BCM43362/1
> Sep 09 17:52:52 honeybee kernel: usbcore: registered new interface driver brcmfmac
> Sep 09 17:52:52 honeybee kernel: brcmfmac mmc1:0001:1: firmware: direct-loading firmware brcm/brcmfmac43362-sdio.bin
> Sep 09 17:52:52 honeybee kernel: brcmfmac mmc1:0001:1: firmware: direct-loading firmware brcm/brcmfmac43362-sdio.txt
> Sep 09 17:52:55 honeybee kernel: brcmfmac: brcmf_sdio_bus_rxctl: resumed on timeout
> Sep 09 17:52:55 honeybee kernel: brcmfmac: brcmf_bus_started: failed: -110
> Sep 09 17:52:55 honeybee kernel: brcmfmac: brcmf_attach: dongle is not responding: err=-110
> Sep 09 17:52:55 honeybee kernel: brcmfmac: brcmf_sdio_firmware_callback: brcmf_attach failed
> 
> This was working using linux-image-4.14.0-3-armmp-lpae and earlier kernels
> including stable's, so seems to be a reversion.
> 
> I have firmware-brcm80211 installed. I tried downgrading it to the same
> version I was using with the older kernel (20170823-1), but that did not help,
> so I don't think it's a problem with the firmware.
> 
> Here it is working with the older kernel, for comparison:
> 
> Sep 09 18:06:10 honeybee kernel: brcmfmac: brcmf_fw_map_chip_to_name: using brcm/brcmfmac43362-sdio.bin for chip 0x00a962(43362) rev 0x000001
> Sep 09 18:06:10 honeybee kernel: usbcore: registered new interface driver brcmfmac
> Sep 09 18:06:10 honeybee kernel: brcmfmac mmc1:0001:1: firmware: direct-loading firmware brcm/brcmfmac43362-sdio.bin
> Sep 09 18:06:10 honeybee kernel: brcmfmac mmc1:0001:1: firmware: direct-loading firmware brcm/brcmfmac43362-sdio.txt
> Sep 09 18:06:10 honeybee kernel: brcmfmac: brcmf_c_preinit_dcmds: Firmware version = wl0: Apr 22 2013 14:50:00 version 5.90.195.89.6 FWID 01-b30a427d
> 
> -- 
> see shy jo