linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH] bcmai: introduce AI driver

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Message-ID: <BANLkTi=DiGX=yg9HAxYHwKdOvedJdYC_sw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 8 Apr 2011 19:09:03 +0200
From:	Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@...il.com>
To:	Arend van Spriel <arend@...adcom.com>
Cc:	"linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
	Michael Büsch <mb@...sch.de>,
	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>,
	George Kashperko <george@...u.edu.ua>,
	"b43-dev@...ts.infradead.org" <b43-dev@...ts.infradead.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	Russell King <rmk@....linux.org.uk>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	linuxdriverproject <devel@...uxdriverproject.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] bcmai: introduce AI driver

2011/4/8 Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@...il.com>:
> 2011/4/6 Arend van Spriel <arend@...adcom.com>:
>> 3. Device identification
>>
>> The cores are identified by manufacturer, core id and revision in your
>> patch. I would not use the revision because 4 out of 5 times a revision
>> change does indicate a hardware change but no change in programming
>> interface. The enumeration data does contain a more selective field
>> indicating the core class (4 bits following the core identifier). I suggest
>> to replace the revision field by this class field.
>
> Could you say something more about *class*, please? For my BCM43224 it
> seems to be 0x0. WIll check BCM4313 in a moment.

Same for BCM4313.

BCM43224:
axi: Core 0 found: ChipCommon (manuf 0x4BF, id 0x800, rev 0x22, class 0x0)
axi: Core 1 found: IEEE 802.11 (manuf 0x4BF, id 0x812, rev 0x17, class 0x0)
axi: Core 2 found: PCIe (manuf 0x4BF, id 0x820, rev 0x0F, class 0x0)

BCM4313
axi: Core 0 found: ChipCommon (manuf 0x4BF, id 0x800, rev 0x24, class 0x0)
axi: Core 1 found: IEEE 802.11 (manuf 0x4BF, id 0x812, rev 0x18, class 0x0)
axi: Core 2 found: PCIe (manuf 0x4BF, id 0x820, rev 0x11, class 0x0)

-- 
Rafał
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