On Thursday 23 July 2009 04:05:17 Larry Finger wrote: > Francesco Gringoli wrote: > > Larry, I think this could be one of the causes of the malfunctioning you > > reported before. If you have some time (and indeed if you feel like > > doing it :-) ) please test this firmware, it will be great. > > Francesco, > > The system ran about 30 minutes, then crashed. I missed the first > oops, but caught a kernel panic with formal traceback on my i386 system: > > b43_dma_handle_txstatus + 0x1ee/0x2fa > b43_handle_txstatus + 0x45/0x52 > > The call in b43_dma_handle_status is at line 1405: > > unmap_descbuffer(ring, meta->dmaaddr, meta->skb->len, > 1); > > The oops was in drivers/net/wireless/b43/xmit.h:171 in the call to > b43_is_old_txhdr_format(). It appears that dev->fw.rev causes the oops.
How is that possible? Is the firmware clobbering random memory? -- Greetings, Michael. _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
