From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Sun, 31 May 2009 19:56:52 +0100 (BST) Received: from mail-ew0-f219.google.com ([209.85.219.219]:36864 "EHLO mail-ew0-f219.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S20024497AbZEaS4q convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 May 2009 19:56:46 +0100 Received: by ewy19 with SMTP id 19so7644663ewy.0 for ; Sun, 31 May 2009 11:56:40 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:sender:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=FEODg8wsSuV2mX4wgs3mfOxJgpANgFGw8L3sDythYH0=; b=brUd27MXZErREd8DuJQeRd7ESJc2AtVUt/A5B8/zGcox+JDr6TQ2tj7Az2XoTbYkVJ vjKsbqXl80KDcwYsoO7u9G1bzrx/SpuALPrNswdB/y+U10C6wgRnBKRmH0xYE9mZlP4r OmvlHovcGdmln+7FIELSN99CgCNuu3qWJlqek= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :content-disposition:message-id; b=Rr9ODMBSBIbB7eCEAmWFLyyLEQ1/a/FU3civTNf/g9n8v53gCVwe4vAcwqgYmj2Q6E VkPpi3UH/S5ZcQ4NAMjlhmkapfFmgYPnM8mWTrs3gIvd+prpv6laRtM3pXGZF8KJy3Pm nsBFEQUKtJVI1nm1SJYm32WMhOsJJ08ewSjqE= Received: by 10.210.16.11 with SMTP id 11mr2048405ebp.18.1243796200360; Sun, 31 May 2009 11:56:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.20? (207.130.195-77.rev.gaoland.net [77.195.130.207]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 24sm3645348eyx.33.2009.05.31.11.56.39 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 31 May 2009 11:56:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Florian Fainelli To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org, Michael Buesch Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/10] bcm63xx: register a fallback SPROM require for b43 to work Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 20:56:35 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 Cc: Ralf Baechle , Maxime Bizon References: <200905312028.02939.florian@openwrt.org> In-Reply-To: <200905312028.02939.florian@openwrt.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200905312056.36809.florian@openwrt.org> Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 23100 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: florian@openwrt.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips Le Sunday 31 May 2009 20:28:02 Florian Fainelli, vous avez écrit : > In order to get b43 working, we have to register a SPROM > which provides sane values to calibrate the radio, provide > GPIO settings and country code. The SSB bus is initialized > when the PCI bus is registered and expects to find the > SPROM at init time. Thus we have to move our device > registration from device_initcall to arch_initcall. The rationale > behind this comes from Broadcom not providing on-chip > EEPROM to store such settings, but relying on the main > system Flash to provide them by software means. Forgot to mention that it is possible to actually register a fallback SPROM thanks to Michael's patch, see http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=123575046807993&w=2 -- Best regards, Florian Fainelli Email : florian@openwrt.org http://openwrt.org -------------------------------