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Re: [otus-devel] [RFT 1/2] ar9170: add initial support for 1-stage firmware

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On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez
<lrodriguez@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 09:03:43AM -0700, Christian Lamparter wrote:

>> --> #if_N_def ZM_OTUS_LINUX_PHASE_2 <--
>> zfDelayWriteInternalReg(dev, 0x1c3694, ((hpPriv->tPow2x2g[0]&0x3f) << 20) | (0x5<<26));
>> zfDelayWriteInternalReg(dev, 0x1c3bb4, ((hpPriv->tPow2x2g[0]&0x3f) << 5 ) | (0x5<<11) |
>>                                            ((hpPriv->tPow2x2g[0]&0x3f) << 21) | (0x5<<27)  );
>> #endif
>> so, the current ar9170 code is actually _wrong_ (but works!)...
>> and we should not touch these fields with the 2-stage firmware.
>
> Oh, hm, yeah good catch, but to match would actually need to call it
> when stage-1 firmware is used.
>
>> OT: since the firmware will (inevitably end up in the firmware-git-tree)
>> we should convert it to ihex, so it can be downloaded with the git-web.
>> (this can be done by: objcopy -I binary -O ihex ar9170.fw ar9170.fw.ihex )
>
> Sure, whatever works best. If you download it from gitweb you then
> have to do the conversion back though.

I noticed some difference in performance wit this removed so I think
for now its best to leave it in for both -- it seems this sets the ACK
power.

  Luis
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