Return-path: Received: from crystal.sipsolutions.net ([195.210.38.204]:47754 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S966134AbXBOQxm (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Feb 2007 11:53:42 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH] bcm43xx: Fix code for spec changes of 2/7/2007 From: Johannes Berg To: Martin Langer Cc: Joseph Jezak , Matthew Garrett , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, John Linville , Michael Buesch , Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de, Larry Finger In-Reply-To: <20070215165125.GA3328@tuba> References: <45cca236.+lL/rsW3DbM3elnk%Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> <200702142240.01494.mb@bu3sch.de> <1171552024.5220.4.camel@johannes.berg> <200702151613.20746.mb@bu3sch.de> <1171552753.5220.10.camel@johannes.berg> <20070215165125.GA3328@tuba> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-ixetdB7HSC5Ef1SeqAgJ" Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 17:53:33 +0100 Message-Id: <1171558414.5220.38.camel@johannes.berg> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --=-ixetdB7HSC5Ef1SeqAgJ Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 17:51 +0100, Martin Langer wrote: > Yep. We have all kinds of firmware with the new instruction set. It's=20 > only ucode2 (old instruction set) that's missing. But the later ucode4=20 > which also uses the old instruction set is available in v4. > OTOH, ucode13 isn't available in v3. We can't offer one firmware version=20 > for all card revisions. Both are limited to a specific range of=20 > revisions. >=20 > v3 rev2...rev12 > v4 rev4...<=3Drev13 The upper limit doesn't really matter, afaict the effect of running a rev9 instead of rev13 will just be a missing performance increase due to bigger FIFOs not being used fully. johannes --=-ixetdB7HSC5Ef1SeqAgJ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Johannes Berg (powerbook) iD8DBQBF1JAN/ETPhpq3jKURAqVJAKCnFvCiiaKyXfSRQbCV9tMMsvibOACcCMi2 mmz7ezitDj0vitNkO+yytAQ= =btJr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-ixetdB7HSC5Ef1SeqAgJ--