From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
Cc: ath10k@lists.infradead.org, Matti Laakso <malaakso@elisanet.fi>
Subject: Re: fetching calibration data from flash
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 08:58:15 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <539F1417.10008@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a99c27ry.fsf@kamboji.qca.qualcomm.com>
On 06/16/2014 08:28 AM, Kalle Valo wrote:
> Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> writes:
>
>> I also think that we will want to be able to configure firmware on
>> a per-nic basis instead of per-machine. If we did that, we could poke
>> any special config into the firmware images using the existing meta-data
>> api. Should be easy enough to write a small program that prepended
>> the config to a generic firmware..then those that care can create their
>> own customized firmware images quickly and easily.
>
> That's still essentially an ini file, just using a binary format hidden
> inside the firmware image. The firmware meta data is for advertising
> capabilities of the firmware binary so that ath10k choose correct
> settings to run the binary, not for delivering configuration settings
> from user space.
>
> If we would start providing driver settings from firmware binaries that
> would just confuse anyone.
Ok. I'll post to netdev to see if anyone else has figured out
a good way to configure info before loading firmware.
Thanks,
Ben
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Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-10 7:55 fetching calibration data from flash Sven Schnelle
2014-06-10 8:28 ` Kalle Valo
2014-06-10 8:32 ` Sven Schnelle
2014-06-10 8:36 ` Matti Laakso
2014-06-10 8:54 ` Kalle Valo
2014-06-10 8:59 ` Matti Laakso
2014-06-10 9:03 ` Kalle Valo
2014-06-10 15:56 ` Ben Greear
2014-06-11 8:38 ` Kalle Valo
2014-06-11 13:40 ` Ben Greear
2014-06-16 12:24 ` Kalle Valo
2014-06-16 14:53 ` Ben Greear
2014-06-16 15:28 ` Kalle Valo
2014-06-16 15:58 ` Ben Greear [this message]
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