On Thursday 15 January 2009 16:37:57 Michael Buesch wrote: > 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. > Ah and also note that hwcrypto is already automagically disabled, if the driver detects an opensource-firmware. To make the driver detect the firmware as opensource, write 0xFFFF to SHM_UCODEDATE You need to disable the watchdog in b43_periodic_every15sec(), if you don't implement the watchdog mechanism in your firmware. But it's pretty easy to implement. It just has to write 0 to some register in the MAC loop. Of course, the register has to be unused in the rest of the code. -- Greetings, Michael. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
