netdev - Re: [PATCH] bcm43xx: Fix code for spec changes of 2/7/2007

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Message-Id: <1171558414.5220.38.camel@johannes.berg>
Date:	Thu, 15 Feb 2007 17:53:33 +0100
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	Martin Langer <martin-langer@....de>
Cc:	Joseph Jezak <josejx@...too.org>,
	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
	John Linville <linville@...driver.com>,
	Michael Buesch <mb@...sch.de>, Bcm43xx-dev@...ts.berlios.de,
	Larry Finger <larry.finger@...inger.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bcm43xx: Fix code for spec changes of 2/7/2007

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 
> only ucode2 (old instruction set) that's missing. But the later ucode4 
> 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 
> for all card revisions. Both are limited to a specific range of 
> revisions.
> 
> v3	rev2...rev12
> v4	rev4...<=rev13

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

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