From: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
To: Francesco Gringoli <francesco.gringoli@ing.unibs.it>
Subject: Re: [b43] opensource firmware
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 18:36:03 +0100
Cc: bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de,
	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>, kyle@infradead.org,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
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On Wednesday 21 January 2009 18:29:40 Francesco Gringoli wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> we just made available a new opensource firmware version, download at http://www.ing.unibs.it/openfwwf
> 
> New features:
> - initvals source code added, initvals files are encoded by make process
> - firmware is now recognized as opensource, though still as version  
> 351 (old format). Firmware's date switched to FFFF
> - watchdog implemented

Note that the debug-IRQ feature is now also available to you.
It enables you to panic, dump SHM, dump regs and print a marker message
from within the firmware. See my openfw repository and handle_irq_ucode_debug() in b43 for details.
Note that the debug-IRQ is synchronous, so it will disturb MAC functionality.
But you only want to use it for debugging anyway. And for debugging it is _very_ convenient
to be able to issue printks and memory dumps from within the firmware code.

-- 
Greetings, Michael.