Subject: Re: [ANN] Atheros 802.11n USB firmware source code released
From: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
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Date: Sun, 07 Jun 2009 15:23:42 +0300
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On Sun, 2009-06-07 at 12:24 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-06-07 at 12:54 +0300, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> 
> > Fine, like I expected, but still, I guess there is some 'loader' in
> > eeprom?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> > If there were a documentation too.
> > Isn't it possible to publish it?
> > 
> > This firmware contains so many 'magic' registers.
> 
> There is some, but it's not public. We can try to document some when we
> replace the magic values by constants.
> 
> johannes

Exactly.

If you could make it public.....

I am taking even not especially about this device, but 
about ath5k AR2425.

My aspire one has several very nasty bugs, and little hope they will be
fixed, and I blame no one for that, developers are busy, and  load is
high.

But on the other hand, chances I fix them are low, I already read whole
ath5k drivers, and without documentation it is hard to see what it going
on.

The only way out I see, it to load windows driver in ndiswrapper, pray
that it will work, and then use mmiotrace to see what is done
differently. I really hate going this way.


Best regards,
	Maxim Levitsky