Dear Armbian community,
First of all, I am aware of the fact that what I am trying to achieve is not supported, but let me ask anyway. What I am trying to do is to build my custom root filesystem for my specific embedded needs (which is pretty minimal and without systemd) while still using kernel (5.8.16-sunxi) and modules provided by Armbian. It is going great so far, but the first issue I need to figure out is why there are approximately 60 second delays between each brcmf_fw_alloc_request calls (full dmesg available here):
[ 40.602927] brcmfmac: brcmf_fw_alloc_request: using brcm/brcmfmac43430-sdio for chip BCM43430/1
[ 40.620798] brcmfmac mmc2:0001:1: Direct firmware load for brcm/brcmfmac43430-sdio.friendlyarm,nanopi-neo-air.txt failed with error -2
[ 40.620821] brcmfmac mmc2:0001:1: Falling back to sysfs fallback for: brcm/brcmfmac43430-sdio.friendlyarm,nanopi-neo-air.txt
[ 101.475933] brcmfmac: brcmf_fw_alloc_request: using brcm/brcmfmac43430-sdio for chip BCM43430/1
[ 162.808829] brcmfmac: brcmf_c_process_clm_blob: no clm_blob available (err=-11), device may have limited channels available
[ 162.813236] brcmfmac: brcmf_c_preinit_dcmds: Firmware: BCM43430/1 wl0: Mar 30 2016 11:30:56 version 7.45.77.h8.4 FWID 01-ee8a6268
On image provided by Armbian brcmfmac dmesg is exactly the same, but there are no such a long delays between brcmf_fw_alloc_request calls (full dmesg available here):
[ 10.540426] brcmfmac: brcmf_fw_alloc_request: using brcm/brcmfmac43430-sdio for chip BCM43430/1
[ 10.549789] brcmfmac mmc2:0001:1: Direct firmware load for brcm/brcmfmac43430-sdio.friendlyarm,nanopi-neo-air.txt failed with error -2
[ 10.549807] brcmfmac mmc2:0001:1: Falling back to sysfs fallback for: brcm/brcmfmac43430-sdio.friendlyarm,nanopi-neo-air.txt
[ 11.103778] brcmfmac: brcmf_fw_alloc_request: using brcm/brcmfmac43430-sdio for chip BCM43430/1
[ 11.106615] brcmfmac: brcmf_c_process_clm_blob: no clm_blob available (err=-11), device may have limited channels available
[ 11.107934] brcmfmac: brcmf_c_preinit_dcmds: Firmware: BCM43430/1 wl0: Mar 30 2016 11:30:56 version 7.45.77.h8.4 FWID 01-ee8a6268
Here is the list of modules that I'm currently using (from /lib/modules/5.8.16-sunxi):
Module Size Used by
brcmfmac 180224 0
brcmutil 16384 1 brcmfmac
cfg80211 471040 1 brcmfmac
rfkill 20480 1 cfg80211
usb_f_acm 20480 1
u_serial 24576 1 usb_f_acm
g_serial 16384 0
libcomposite 45056 2 g_serial,usb_f_acm
pwrseq_simple 16384 1
sunxi 20480 0
phy_generic 20480 2 sunxi
Does anybody know a way to remove these delays without involving systemd at all? Maybe udev would be sufficient? Any opinions are appreciated