On 02/09/2011 04:53 PM, RafaÅ MiÅecki wrote: > W dniu 9 lutego 2011 22:51 uÅytkownik Michael BÃsch <mb@xxxxxxxxx> napisaÅ: >> On Wed, 2011-02-09 at 22:35 +0100, RafaÅ MiÅecki wrote: >>> What about proposed solution? >> >> Well, I'm not going to maintain it due to a lack of devices, >> knowledge of the AI and a serious lack of additional time. >> >> However, I'm certainly OK with you adopting maintainership >> if people think that the code looks sane and should be merged. >> >> One thing I really don't like is the name-confusion introduced >> by this. We will have functions with the ssb_...() prefix >> that don't necessarily operate on ssb devices, but on AI devices >> instead, depending on the actual magic behind the scenes. >> That's one of the major things I tried hard to avoid in the >> SSB design from day 0 on. >> It's what I hated most about Broadcom's SB implementation (there it >> is pci_...() functions, which operate on PCI, SB or whatever else >> depending on some serious magic). >> >> So my proposal doesn't change: Create two separate busses (SSB and AI) >> and port the device drivers to work on both. That also implies >> decoupling the built-in SSB device drivers (CC, MIPS, EXTIF, PCICORE) >> from the SSB implementation. >> The code duplication will negligible. > > OK, I think I'll need some your help with better understanding SSB. > > AFAIK SSB is "box" (ssb_bus) containing cores (ssb_devices). > > How do we talk with SSB? Is this that magic "Hostbus"? What does it > mean? Do we use one of the cores of ssb_bus to talk? Is this why I see > "ssb: Core 2 found: PCI-E (cc 0x820, rev 0x02, vendor 0x4243)"? If > only one core can be selected at time, how is this possible we selecre > 802.11 core and we are still able to talk with SSB? > > What are the other cores for? Why do we need driver for chipcommon, > mipscore? Are that cores internally accessed by 80211 core? > > What is that whole AI? Is that replacement for SSB? Does it also > contains cores? What AI and SSB share? Michael, Do you have a copy of the BCM5365P for Rafal? The link in the specs (http://voodoowarez.com/bcm5365p.pdf) is apparently no longer available. My recollection is that it had a good description of the SSB. 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
