From: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
To: bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
Lorenzo Nava <navalorenx@gmail.com>,
kyle@infradead.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [b43] opensource firmware
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:37:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200901151637.58196.mb@bu3sch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1231965922.20309.0.camel@johannes>
On Wednesday 14 January 2009 21:45:22 Johannes Berg wrote:
>
> > Initvals and new firmware version can be found at http://www.ing.unibs.it/openfwwf
>
> I suggest that before this is packaged, we change it so b43 can
> recognise it and automatically disable qos and hwcrypto.
Yes, please introduce a feature-bitfield at some location in SHM that's unused
by the proprietary firmware. This bitfields would contain a bit for QoS and
a bit for hwcrypto.
Also change your firmware so the driver detects it as open-source firmware.
I think that's done by writing 0xFFFF to the date/time field in SHM. I don't
quite remember, but it's something like that.
Note that this might mean that the firmware watchdog in the driver will trigger,
as that's enabled by the open-source-firmware-flag. We might want to temporarly
disable the watchdog in the driver for the time being.
--
Greetings, Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-15 15:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-14 15:30 [b43] opensource firmware Lorenzo Nava
2009-01-14 15:33 ` John W. Linville
2009-01-14 15:57 ` Buran Ayuthia
2009-01-14 16:06 ` Lorenzo Nava
2009-01-14 17:43 ` Larry Finger
2009-01-14 17:48 ` Michael Buesch
2009-01-15 9:10 ` Lorenzo Nava
2009-01-15 9:45 ` gavron
2009-01-15 10:20 ` Lorenzo Nava
2009-01-14 20:45 ` Johannes Berg
2009-01-14 21:09 ` John W. Linville
2009-01-14 21:20 ` Johannes Berg
2009-01-14 21:32 ` Kyle McMartin
2009-01-15 15:37 ` Michael Buesch [this message]
2009-01-15 15:44 ` Michael Buesch
2009-01-15 15:59 ` Larry Finger
2009-01-15 16:09 ` Michael Buesch
2009-01-15 23:17 ` Kyle McMartin
2009-01-16 15:15 ` Michael Buesch
2009-01-15 23:01 ` Francesco Gringoli
2009-01-16 15:12 ` Michael Buesch
2009-01-21 17:29 ` Francesco Gringoli
2009-01-21 17:36 ` Michael Buesch
2009-01-25 18:37 ` Rafał Miłecki
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-01-09 10:29 Fwd: " Michael Buesch
2009-01-09 10:49 ` Michael Buesch
2009-01-09 10:58 ` Michael Buesch
2009-01-09 11:03 ` Francesco Gringoli
2009-01-09 11:00 ` Francesco Gringoli
2009-01-09 11:06 ` Michael Buesch
2009-01-09 11:11 ` Lorenzo Nava
2009-01-09 11:35 ` Lorenzo Nava
2009-01-10 17:37 ` Lorenzo Nava
2009-01-11 1:21 ` Buran Ayuthia
2009-01-12 15:39 ` John W. Linville
2009-01-12 15:48 ` Michael Buesch
2009-01-12 15:48 ` Francesco Gringoli
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