From: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>
Cc: Karl Relton <karllinuxtest.relton@ntlworld.com>,
dwmw2@infradead.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add prism 2/3 usb adaptor firmware for use with staging/wlan-ng driver.
Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:22:37 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1246468957.15757.20.camel@mj> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43e72e890907011014v300bcf64u3c7b259173d93588@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 10:14 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> Can you elaborate on this a little. Does the driver currently take the
> srec file, append/prepend some data onto it and then run it on the
> target CPU?
Some data in the srec file is replaced by the data read from the card
(so called plug data area, or PDA). "Plugging" refers to that process.
> > , so pre-compilation would have meant
> > inventing both a compiler tool and an intermediate format for the driver
> > to read and process.
>
> The srec->binary conversion just needs to be done once, and not sure
> what the "extra" stuff is that you mention is required, but if its
> always the same can't that just be put into a final binary file?
We can use the same format as Spectrum firmware used in spectrum_cs, and
reuse its parser/plugger. Spectrum and Prism chipsets are related and
use the same idea of plugging, but Prism firmware is distributed as srec
files, whereas Spectrum firmware is cut from binary drivers as a binary.
--
Regards,
Pavel Roskin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-01 17:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-30 19:05 [PATCH] Add prism 2/3 usb adaptor firmware for use with staging/wlan-ng driver Karl Relton
2009-06-30 19:17 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-06-30 21:09 ` Karl Relton
2009-06-30 21:58 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-07-01 16:16 ` Karl Relton
2009-07-01 17:14 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-07-01 17:22 ` Pavel Roskin [this message]
2009-07-01 17:51 ` Dave
2009-07-01 18:12 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-07-01 18:35 ` Dan Williams
2009-07-01 19:36 ` Insist on cfg80211 for new drivers? John W. Linville
2009-07-01 19:49 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-07-01 19:53 ` Johannes Berg
2009-07-01 20:40 ` Kalle Valo
2009-07-01 21:52 ` Marcel Holtmann
2009-07-01 21:56 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-07-01 22:08 ` Marcel Holtmann
2009-07-01 22:13 ` Greg KH
2009-07-01 22:18 ` Marcel Holtmann
2009-07-01 22:42 ` Greg KH
2009-07-02 11:07 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-07-02 12:44 ` Dan Williams
2009-07-02 9:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-07-06 12:52 ` Johannes Berg
2009-07-06 14:23 ` John W. Linville
2009-07-06 14:45 ` Larry Finger
2009-07-06 14:57 ` Johannes Berg
2009-07-06 15:05 ` Nick Kossifidis
2009-07-01 19:46 ` [PATCH] Add prism 2/3 usb adaptor firmware for use with staging/wlan-ng driver David Woodhouse
2009-07-02 16:59 ` Karl Relton
2009-06-30 19:39 ` John W. Linville
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