topic Re: What is the ath6kl driver version in Marshmallow? in i.MX Processors

What is the ath6kl driver version in Marshmallow?

harekrishnaroy — Tue, 21 Jun 2016 13:16:02 GMT

Hi All,

I want to know the version of ath6kl driver in Marshmallow. I tried flashing Marshmallow on SD card but i could not do it. But that is another issue about which i am not worried right now. My target was to flash SD card with Marshmallow and check ath6kl version which shows at boot time.

Best Regards,

Hare

Re: What is the ath6kl driver version in Marshmallow?

igorpadykov — Wed, 22 Jun 2016 00:28:32 GMT

Hi Hare

Marshmallow uses Broadcom drivers as shown

in attached Table 2. Features Release Notes.

Best regards

igor

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Re: What is the ath6kl driver version in Marshmallow?

harekrishnaroy — Wed, 22 Jun 2016 05:01:31 GMT

Thank you igor for your valuable answer.

Best Regards,

Hare

Re: What is the ath6kl driver version in Marshmallow?

harekrishnaroy — Thu, 23 Jun 2016 10:08:58 GMT

Hi igor,

There is another question in this context.

Lolypop usage atheros driver . And in the same kernel version on linux i have found different architecture of atheros driver.

Could you please explain me why this difference is there??

Re: What is the ath6kl driver version in Marshmallow?

igorpadykov — Thu, 23 Jun 2016 10:40:02 GMT

as shown in attached Release Notes Android supports 8821AS, Linux AR6003

~igor

Re: What is the ath6kl driver version in Marshmallow?

shivakumar — Thu, 23 Jun 2016 11:28:36 GMT

igor,

In imx android release (eng-L5.0.2_1.0.0-ga), there is atheros driver in hardware/imx/wlan/atheros/ location which is getting used ... and there will be another driver which is the part of linux kernel itself.(kernel_imx/drivers/net/wireless/ath/). What is the difference between these two version. And as we see, the one which is hardware/imx folder is getting used .

-Shiva

Re: What is the ath6kl driver version in Marshmallow?

igorpadykov — Thu, 23 Jun 2016 11:54:44 GMT

I do not know what is "android release (eng-L5.0.2_1.0.0-ga)",

attached documents are for nxp official releases (found on nxp.com) :

L5.0.0_1.0.0-ga, also Android L5.1.1_2.1.0 uses broadcom BCM4339

as shown in attached Release Notes p.4

Suggest to look at document Release Notes - it should be included in bsp,

it shows what is supported. Note, there may be other drivers, but they are not

supported (tested).

~igor