Dale Walsh wrote: > (SEE PREVIOUS POST) > > On Jun 06, 2008, at 00:26 AM, Larry Finger wrote:
>> The sprom updating facility described above utilizes the /sys >> pseudo-file system of Linux and will never work on any other OS. Your >> only hope would be to find a user with Linux on his Apple hardware and >> build the ssb-sprom utility. If you were to place the resulting >> executable on a flash drive, you could boot the appropriate version of >> a live CD, then execute ssb-sprom from the flash device. The codes >> could also be changed by a Linux user with x86 (PC) hardware as long >> as the card will fit in their computer. > > If I could find the ssb-sprom source I might be able to generate a > version that works on a Mac, I do have a little skill. > > I also have x86 computer hardware that can run linux I believe, unless > linux doesn't support 500gb HDA's, ATI X1300 video cards, ICH7 or Core 2 > Quad CPU's? You are showing your ignorance! >> >>> I have no problems using a CLI utility and navigation is not an issue. >>> Hopefully someone can provide a link for a windows utility that fits >>> my needs or a GNU source package that can be built on the majority of >>> *nix based OSes that doesn't have many obscure external dependancies >>> (I have been know to compile things that don't normally compile on my >>> OS). >> >> As explained above, this cannot happen. > > I'll refrain from responding to this comment because I am not entirely > convinced this is factual at this time. The package ssb-sprom can be built on a Mac, both MacIntel and PPC, and it would allow you to manipulate an on-disk version of the SPROM contents. To look at what is required to get a read or write of the SPROM contents, grab a copy of Linux 2.6.24 or later and examine the PCI routines in the directory drivers/ssb/. Much of the code is used to handle the SPROM. Please note that it IS IN THE KERNEL. No user-land entity that reports the ID's, etc has the capability to write the SPROM. From a more recent note in this thread, it seems that you can change a simple file to include your device. If that is really true, please do it that way. Anytime one rewrites the SPROM, there is a finite chance of bricking your device. Do it only if necessary!!! Larry _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
