Return-Path: Subject: Re: [Bluez-users] bt3c_cs time out - no firmware loaded? From: Marcel Holtmann To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Krisztian Mark Szentes , BlueZ Mailing List , Edd Dumbill In-Reply-To: <1053091452.2561.86.camel@gaston> References: <53B03DA73719D5119E6A0008C71E1D78030EA9A3@svr-mail1.corp.home.nl> <200305131047.39294.office@produktivIT.com> <1053083095.26552.49.camel@pegasus> <200305161438.08919.office@produktivIT.com> <1053091452.2561.86.camel@gaston> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1053091839.26550.125.camel@pegasus> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: bluez-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: bluez-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: 16 May 2003 15:30:33 +0200 Hi Ben, > Hrm... The problem isn't simple. You are just not supposed to tap IOs > that way from userland, especially since PPC arch doesn't have anything > like "PIO" instructions. The IO space of your card is actually mapped > somewhere in physical memory, that "somewhere" not beeing generally > available to userland. > > Can you tell me more about the card ? Is it a 16 bits PCMCIA device or > is it a cardbus (PCI) one ? Why can't you tap the IOs solely from within > a kernel driver ? this is a 16 Bit PCMCIA card. We need to load the firmware from userspace, because we can't distribute it within the kernel driver due the legal issues. At the moment we don't even distribute the firmware file with our userspace firmware loader program. Regards Marcel ------------------------------------------------------- Enterprise Linux Forum Conference & Expo, June 4-6, 2003, Santa Clara The only event dedicated to issues related to Linux enterprise solutions www.enterpriselinuxforum.com _______________________________________________ Bluez-users mailing list Bluez-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bluez-users