Bug#1029843: brcmfmac: requested firmware filename inconsistent with linux-firmware.git on non-devicetree systems
Control: unmerge 1029843 1030519
Control: reassign 1029843 src:linux
Control: retitle 1029843 brcmfmac: requested firmware filename
inconsistent with linux-firmware.git on non-devicetree systems
Control: affects 1029843 firmware-brcm80211 raspi-firmware
Dear Maintainer,
This bugreport relates to the brcmfmac kernel module and the firmware
filename that it probes for during load.
It looks like this may have been a cause of some problems reported in
bugs #989593, #1029843 (this bug) and #1035392.
The last of those three bugs is an installation-report of mine, and as
far as I can tell the problem is that when the affected system (an
RPi) was configured without devicetree support in its UEFI bootloader,
the kernel module was unable to determine a precise filename and used
some fallback logic to determine one approximately here:
https://sources.debian.org/src/linux/6.1.25-1/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/common.c/?hl=487#L487
Please let me know if I can provide any further details to help track this down.
Thank you,
James
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