netdev - Re: wl1251 & mac address & calibration data

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Date:   Mon, 5 Dec 2016 15:51:49 -0800
From:   Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>
To:     Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@...il.com>
Cc:     Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@....fi>,
        Sebastian Reichel <sre@...nel.org>,
        Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
        Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@...to.com>,
        Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>,
        Ivaylo Dimitrov <ivo.g.dimitrov.75@...il.com>,
        linux-wireless <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
        Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: wl1251 & mac address & calibration data

* Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@...il.com> [161126 09:21]:
> On Thursday 24 November 2016 19:46:01 Aaro Koskinen wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 04:20:45PM +0100, Pali Rohár wrote:
> > > Proprietary, signed and closed bootloader NOLO does not support DT.
> > > So for booting you need to append DTS file to kernel image.
> > > 
> > > U-Boot is optional and can be used as intermediate bootloader
> > > between NOLO and kernel. But still it has problems with reading
> > > from nand, so cannot read NVS data nor MAC address.
> > 
> > You could use kexec to pass the fixed DT.
> > 
> > A.
> 
> IIRC it was broken for N900/omap3, no idea if somebody fixed it.

FYI, at least in next-20161205 kexec works on omap3 for me.

Regards,

Tony