In the various devices using the Sonics Silicon Backplane (ssb), we are aware of at least 4 different revisions of the SPROM, which stores information regarding that device such as MAC address, etc. The specifications list the layouts of the various revisions. From everything we knew, rev 2 inherited all the rev 1 data, and rev 3 inherited from rev 2. To my surprise, I found that when I examined my first rev 3 device, the layout was not the same as my rev 2 device. The differences are such that the current driver could never work with the new layout.
I need to know if this is really the first rev 3 SPROM that has been discovered, or if more than one flavor of the beast exists. To provide the information, please run the following two commands: SSB_SPROM=$(find /sys -name ssb_sprom) sudo cat $SSB_SPROM For these commands to work, you will need to be running a bash shell and using either bcm43xx-mac80211 or b43 as your driver. The second command will result in a string of hexadecimal digits that looks like: 0130000063133C100800BE0D00FFFFFF11430080020000000010001800000000 FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF0000FFFFFFFFFFFF FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF1A000473E51DFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF39303D15 A0FA79FEFF83FFFF4AFFFFFFFFFFFFFF3EFF494A02FF53550CFFFFFFFFFF02C0 I have added line breaks for this E-mail - the real thing will be an unbroken string of characters. If the 3rd and 4th characters from the end are "03" (mine has "02"), please send me the entire string. Thanks, Larry _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
