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Re: [b43] opensource firmware

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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.

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Greetings, Michael.
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