Re: [PATCH do not merge 0/4] wifi: mwifiex: add iw61x support

From: Francesco Dolcini
Date: Mon May 05 2025 - 03:33:25 EST


On Tue, Apr 29, 2025 at 03:59:28PM +0300, Ivan T. Ivanov wrote:
> On 03-31 08:50, Francesco Dolcini wrote:
> > Message-ID: <20250331065026.GA12444@francesco-nb>
> > On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 01:18:30PM +0100, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> > > This series adds iw61x support to the mwifiex driver. It works for me,
> > > but is not yet ready to be merged. Some people showed interest in it, so
> > > I am sending it here.

...

> > > Not sure what these are about, I can't see these handled in the
> > > downstream mwifiex driver as well. Could also be there is some parsing
> > > error. Nevertheless the driver seems to work.
>
> Yep, it is working. Thank you! I am testing this on FRDM-iMX93, which has
> IW612 revision 1.0.
>
> I have to use nxp/sd_w61x_v1.bin.se on this board and NULL firmware_sdiouart
> because it seems that firmware return 1 as "strap" value, even if WiFi
> is definitely connected over SDIO.

Wi-Fi is always connected over SDIO (for IW61x), the strapping is
related to the interface used for BT. In the past it was common to have
options for having BT over SDIO or UART or USB, but for IW61x it seems
that UART is the only available option.

Francesco