Francesco Gringoli wrote: > Hello, > > we have been testing the firmware for a week now and it seems stable. I > personally tested it also on a Linksys WRT54GL and it works both in > station and in AP modes. I collected the feedbacks that some of you sent > and it seems that the firmware now runs on these board: > > - 4306, 4311, 4318, 4320 As a point of clarification, I think this is restricted to the 4311/1 as the 4311/2 uses ucode13, not ucode5. If you need a tester for an open-source version of the 13 firmware, I'm available. > I was considering the suggestions you all gave me a few days ago and > other questions related to the possible integration of this firmware > into the kernel, and I came to these conclusions/questions (please > forgive me for this long message :-) ) > > - change the name of the initvals for the opensource firmware: this > seems a little bit complicated as now the decision about the > initval-files' names and the detection of the firmware type are > respectively based on the phy type and on the firmware date. This means > that initval-files' names can be determine as soon as the hardware type > has been probed, while the firmware needs to be started before the > kernel can determine if it is opensource or not: at this time, however, > the initvals have already been uploaded. What can we do? The driver can certainly be coded to look for the open-source firmware names before trying to load vendor firmware. That way there will not be any confusion. > - detection of the opensource firmware capabilities: are you really sure > we cannot use a shm location that the bcm proprietary firmware uses for > some other purpose? Once, in fact, the kernel has determined that the > firmware is opensource it can also use a given location in a different > manner than it would do for a proprietary firmware. However this is not > a problem at all :-) as we can use one location in the "high" shm-memory > area, let's say > 0xb00, just choose one. I think it best to choose an unused location. Larry -- 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
