linux-kernel - Re: [ANN] Atheros 802.11n USB firmware source code released

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Date:	Sun, 07 Jun 2009 12:24:10 +0200
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@...il.com>
Cc:	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...il.com>,
	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, otus-devel@...ts.madwifi-project.org,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>
Subject: Re: [ANN] Atheros 802.11n USB firmware source code released

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

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