From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Larry Finger Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2014 17:57:31 -0600 Subject: Need to match driver to microcode? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <52F2CFEB.6000307@lwfinger.net> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: b43-dev@lists.infradead.org On 02/05/2014 04:58 PM, grarpamp wrote: > For the same core number, is it necessary to update > the b43 driver when a new microcode is added? Or > does the API/addressing into the microcode stay > the same across microcode updates? > > ie: Were any updates to the driver needed to support > the span from say 478.104 to 784.2 of the microcode > for any of the cores already present in 478.104? > > I'm not seeing anything obvious to that effect in the > short summaries here: > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/log/drivers/net/wireless/b43 Throughout the life of the b43 driver, there have been changes in the microcode that required changes in the driver; however all of them predate version 478.104. With that said, I have not tested anything newer than 666.x. Where did you get version 784.2? Larry