On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 8:50 PM, Larry Finger <larry.fin...@lwfinger.net> wrote: > If you had one of the newer cores, then you needed newer firmware to get the > correct file, but the older ones worked. However, I should never trust my > memory.
Correct my understanding... 'cores' refers to physical hardware devices/revisions from Broadcom? So if I 'had newer cores', I'd need to find newer 'firmware aka: microcode' to support them. Because 'older ones aka: firmware files' would not in fact work for me since they would not have support for the new physical core I posess? ie: I see newer files from say Linksys have more ucodeN.fw N'umbers' available inside them than their older files.. > The TX and RX headers changed with firmware version 598.314. 598.314 is not now in fwcutter, was it at one time present and then removed? > change in the driver was introduced with commit 17030f4 in such a way that > the older firmware versions still worked. > > The two commits are at the bottom of the page > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/log/drivers/net/wireless/b43?ofs=200. Looking them over. > Ah, I know it by a different number. What number is that? How does something like '6.30.102.9 (r366174)' on the wrapper relate to its corresponding internal '784.2'? What are those strings each describing? And is there a supposed changelog, perhaps but not necessarily from Broadcom, for what changed in the different firmwares that we find? Thanks. _______________________________________________ b43-dev mailing list b43-dev@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/b43-dev
