latest iwm patches don't work with my 8265 chip

[Tommi Pernila]

Hi,

Thanks for the info Pete.

I also have no idea about the correctness of the patch, but i'll also test
it on my 8265 card.


Br,

Tommi

On Tue, 10 Oct 2017 at 5.12, Pete Wright <pete at nomadlogic.org> wrote:

>
>
> On 10/09/2017 16:02, Pete Wright wrote:
> > hey there - i was really excited to see GNN's recent commits to add
> > support to the 8265 Intel WiFi devices:
> >
> > https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=324434
> >
> > unfortunately this does not seem to work on my system.  after building
> > and rebooting dmesg reports this:
> >
> > iwm0: <Intel(R) Dual Band Wireless AC 8265> mem 0xdf000000-0xdf001fff
> > at device 0.0 on pci2
> > iwm8265fw: could not load firmware image, error 2
> > iwm0: could not read firmware iwm8265fw (error 0)
> > iwm0: SecBoot CPU1 Status: 0x1, CPU2 Status: 0x3
> > iwm0: Failed to start INIT ucode: 35
> >
> > here's the output from pciconf for my device:
> >
> > iwm0 at pci0:3:0:0:    class=0x028000 card=0x10108086 chip=0x24fd8086
> > rev=0x78 hdr=0x00
> >     vendor     = 'Intel Corporation'
> >     device     = 'Wireless 8265 / 8275'
> >     class      = network
> >
> >
> > interestingly enough the patches imported from dragonfly worked great:
> > https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=220229
> >
>
> not sure if this is the correct way to get things working, but this diff
> fixes things up on my end (allows the firmware to load):
>
> diff --git a/sys/modules/iwmfw/Makefile b/sys/modules/iwmfw/Makefile
> index d38f5424153..73e401b3ea9 100644
> --- a/sys/modules/iwmfw/Makefile
> +++ b/sys/modules/iwmfw/Makefile
> @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
>   # $FreeBSD$
>
> -SUBDIR=        iwm3160fw iwm7260fw iwm7265fw iwm8000Cfw iwm7265Dfw
> +SUBDIR=        iwm3160fw iwm7260fw iwm7265fw iwm8000Cfw iwm8265fw
> iwm7265Dfw
>
>   .include <bsd.subdir.mk>
>
>
> w/o the diff the iwm8265fw doesn't get built afaict.
>
> cheers,
> -pete
>
> --
> Pete Wright
> pete at nomadlogic.org
> @nomadlogicLA
>
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