| To: | Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org> |
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| Subject: | Re: [PATCH 04/10] bcm63xx: register a fallback SPROM require for b43 to work |
| From: | Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> |
| Date: | Tue, 2 Jun 2009 10:05:45 +0100 |
| Cc: | linux-mips@linux-mips.org, Maxime Bizon <mbizon@freebox.fr> |
| In-reply-to: | <200905312028.02939.florian@openwrt.org> |
| Original-recipient: | rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org |
| References: | <200905312028.02939.florian@openwrt.org> |
| Sender: | linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org |
| User-agent: | Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) |
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 08:28:02PM +0200, Florian Fainelli wrote: > 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. > > Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org> Also folded into the series. Ralf |
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