| To: | linux-mips@linux-mips.org, Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> |
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| Subject: | Re: [PATCH 04/10] bcm63xx: register a fallback SPROM require for b43 to work |
| From: | Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org> |
| Date: | Sun, 31 May 2009 20:56:35 +0200 |
| Cc: | Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>, Maxime Bizon <mbizon@freebox.fr> |
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Le Sunday 31 May 2009 20:28:02 Florian Fainelli, vous avez écrit : > In order to get b43 working, we have to register a SPROM > which provides sane values to calibrate the radio, provide > GPIO settings and country code. The SSB bus is initialized > when the PCI bus is registered and expects to find the > SPROM at init time. Thus we have to move our device > registration from device_initcall to arch_initcall. The rationale > behind this comes from Broadcom not providing on-chip > EEPROM to store such settings, but relying on the main > system Flash to provide them by software means. Forgot to mention that it is possible to actually register a fallback SPROM thanks to Michael's patch, see http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=123575046807993&w=2 -- Best regards, Florian Fainelli Email : florian@openwrt.org http://openwrt.org ------------------------------- |
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