freebsd-dev/usr.sbin/bluetooth/ath3kfw/ath3kfw.8
Adrian Chadd aebdb1e24e [ath3k] add a replacement ath3k firmware loading tool.
This is influenced by the ath3k driver from linux (circa 2013, this is
how long I've been sitting on this.)

It handles loading in firmware using the newer model, where it assembles
the right set of firmware blobs and board configuration based on the
device list and querying the device.

The older utility could only load in a single image - which sometimes
was ath3k-1.fw and sometimes was ath3k-2.fw.  However, the ath3k maintainers
didn't want to keep adding in binaries that were just derivatives with a
separate board config, so they deleted ath3k-2.fw from the Linux firmware
repository and instead, well, did this.

Now, this has been tested against AR3011 and AR3012 NICs from the AR9285+BT
combo up through to the QCA9565+BT combo.  It doesn't yet work with the
QCAFN222 NIC as that is some newer chip.

The firmware can be grabbed from https://github.com/erikarn/ath3kfw/ in
the share/firmware/ath3k directory.  I'll update this utility over time
to support the newer firmware drops (newer than mid-2013) which should
pull in the QCNFA222 and subsequent chips.

Tested:

* AR9285 + BT
* AR9287 + BT
* AR9485 + BT
* AR9462 + BT
* QCA9565 + BT
2016-06-07 04:22:18 +00:00

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.Dd June 4, 2016
.Dt ATH3KFW 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm ath3kfw
.Nd firmware download utility for Atheros AR3011/AR3012 chip based Bluetooth USB devices
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm
.Fl d Ar device_name
.Fl f Ar firmware_path
.Nm
.Fl h
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
utility downloads the specified firmware file to the specified
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device.
.Pp
This utility will
.Em only
work with Atheros AR3011 and AR3012 chip based Bluetooth USB devices.
The identification is currently based on USB vendor ID/product ID pair.
The vendor ID should be 0x0cf3
.Pq Dv USB_VENDOR_ATHEROS2
and the product ID should be one of the supported devices.
.Pp
Firmware files are available in the linux-firmware RPM.
.Pp
The
.Nm
utility will query the device to determine which firmware image and board
configuration to load in at runtime.
.Pp
The options are as follows:
.Bl -tag -width indent
.It Fl D
Enable verbose debugging.
.It Fl d Ar device_name
Specify
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device name.
.It I
Enable informational debugging.
.It Fl f Ar firmware_path
Specify the directory containing the firmware files to search and upload.
.It Fl h
Display usage message and exit.
.El
.Sh EXIT STATUS
.Ex -std
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr libusb 3 ,
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.Xr devd 8
.Sh AUTHORS
The original utility was written by
.An Maksim Yevmenkin Aq Mt m_evmenkin@yahoo.com .
This was written based on Linux ath3k by
.An Adrian Chadd Aq Mt adrian@freebsd.org .
.Sh BUGS
Most likely.
Please report if found.