Re: 64-bit DMA problems with BCM4312 using b43

2009-11-13 Thread Matthew Garrett
sensitive to DMA latencies? Take a look at the pm_qos code in ipw2100. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev

Re: 64-bit DMA problems with BCM4312 using b43

2009-11-13 Thread Matthew Garrett
. The latency is the amount of time it takes to get out of deep C states and into C0. That's a function of the processor design rather than the frequency. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https

Re: b43-phy0 ERROR: Fatal DMA error: 0x00000400

2009-11-13 Thread Matthew Garrett
. If it turns out that it is required, efforts should be made to limit it to the code regions that absolutely require this behaviour. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https

Re: b43legacy: My laptop has no button for rfkill but the driver sais it has...

2008-12-23 Thread Matthew Garrett
. The dell-laptop driver is worth a go - it provides support for controlling the Dell-specific rfkill interface. It may (or may not) help here. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https

[RFC] b43: rework rfkill code

2008-12-10 Thread Matthew Garrett
name of this rfkill switch */ -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev

Re: [RFC] b43: rework rfkill code

2008-12-10 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 04:48:29PM +0100, Michael Buesch wrote: On Wednesday 10 December 2008 16:09:35 Matthew Garrett wrote: I've reworked the rfkill code in b43. This ought to be more consistent ... I'm fine with this, as long as you take over the responsibility for the whole b43

Re: [RFC] b43: rework rfkill code

2008-12-10 Thread Matthew Garrett
. The way we currently handle that (and, I think, the only way we *can* handle that) is to provide two separate rfkill interfaces - one tied to the wireless device, one tied to the platform device. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Bcm43xx-dev

Re: [RFC] b43: rework rfkill code

2008-12-10 Thread Matthew Garrett
hw switch device. Right. That's prety close to the current situation. If we need to tie them together in software it gets more complicated though. I think we can avoid that, thankfully. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Bcm43xx-dev

Re: Regression in 2.6.27-rcX caused by commit bc19d6e0b74ef03a3baf035412c95192b54dfc6f

2008-09-16 Thread Matthew Garrett
switch */ -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev

Re: Regression in 2.6.27-rcX caused by commit bc19d6e0b74ef03a3baf035412c95192b54dfc6f

2008-09-16 Thread Matthew Garrett
timer_list poll_timer; + /* Workqueue for the RFKILL polling */ + struct work_struct poll_queue; /* Did initialization succeed? Used for freeing. */ bool registered; /* The unique name of this rfkill switch */ -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Regression in 2.6.27-rcX caused by commit bc19d6e0b74ef03a3baf035412c95192b54dfc6f

2008-09-16 Thread Matthew Garrett
being generated by rfkill-input trying to change the state after it's already been changed. The general intent is correct. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman

Re: Broadcom 4311 on HP 350 laptop

2007-08-31 Thread Matthew Garrett
a day. I have already run 3 new kernels today. We don't. Shipped firmware is provided in /lib/firmware/`uname -r` in order to ensure that we can keep it in sync with module updates. User-installed firmware can stay in /lib/firmware. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: DON'T use Ubuntu Feisty kernel

2007-02-16 Thread Matthew Garrett
and shipped. Things should be rectified in the next upload. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev

Re: The new SSB subsystem for bcm43xx (and others)

2007-02-11 Thread Matthew Garrett
appear at the top level. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev

Re: [PATCH] bcm43xx: Fix code for spec changes of 2/7/2007

2007-02-10 Thread Matthew Garrett
, unfortunately... -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev

Assertion failed in parse_cookie() (d80211 tree)

2007-02-10 Thread Matthew Garrett
the closed broadcom driver. I've got three sets of these messages at 120 second intervals, and then another after 240 seconds, which makes me think it's linked to some sort of periodic event. Any further debug info I can provide? -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Assertion failed in parse_cookie() (d80211 tree)

2007-02-10 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 06:00:59PM +0100, Michael Buesch wrote: Strange. THat shouldn't happen. Can you post complete dmesg? Attached. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Feb 10 16:06:02 vaio kernel: [0.00] Linux version 2.6.20-7-generic ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 4.1.2

Re: The new SSB subsystem for bcm43xx (and others)

2007-02-10 Thread Matthew Garrett
as an entirely separate branch of the device tree, which doesn't seem quite right. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev

Re: [PATCH] bcm43xx: Fix code for spec changes of 2/7/2007

2007-02-09 Thread Matthew Garrett
also drive the old cards? -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev

Re: Bcm43xx oops after suspend to disk

2007-01-29 Thread Matthew Garrett
the interface vanishing and reappearing. Larry, I guess you just mean this as a test patch? -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev

Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] Rename V4 firmware

2007-01-27 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 06:36:07PM +0100, Michael Buesch wrote: On Saturday 27 January 2007 00:25, Matthew Garrett wrote: But while you use .v3, most people use the softmac driver without a postfix at all. I'm sorry. That's not our problem. ;) That's either a distro or user problem

[RFC PATCH 1/2] Rename V4 firmware

2007-01-26 Thread Matthew Garrett
-by: Matthew Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- diff -urp bcm43xx-fwcutter-006/fwcutter.c bcm43xx-fwcutter-006.new/fwcutter.c --- bcm43xx-fwcutter-006/fwcutter.c 2006-12-08 21:00:28.0 + +++ bcm43xx-fwcutter-006.new/fwcutter.c 2007-01-26 13:42:08.0 + @@ -28,6 +28,7

[RFC PATCH 2/2] Rename V4 firmware

2007-01-26 Thread Matthew Garrett
This patch alters the dscape version of the bcm43xx driver to explicitly request version 4 firmware. Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/d80211/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c b/drivers/net/wireless/d80211/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c index 9f4d51d..4f11ce8

Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] Rename V4 firmware

2007-01-26 Thread Matthew Garrett
. The alternative is that distributions are going to have to ship modprobe.d files for the dscape driver, which will probably result in different vendors choosing different suffixes. The two firmwares are incompatible in any meaningful way, so surely they should have different names? -- Matthew

Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] Rename V4 firmware

2007-01-26 Thread Matthew Garrett
for distributions to handle. Adding a suggestion to the docs that people use v4 as the postfix for dscape would probably be adequate, I just want to avoid the situation where different distributions use different postfixes and everyone gets confused. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: all-in-one dscape-patch for 2.6.16 results in kernel-panic

2006-04-04 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 09:13:29AM +0200, Thomas Ploch wrote: How do I configure syslog, that it logs the kernel panics as well, because only successfull start-ups get logged somehow. Is it in syslog.conf: In most cases, you can't. You'll have to copy it down by hand. -- Matthew Garrett

Re: all-in-one dscape-patch for 2.6.16 results in kernel-panic

2006-04-03 Thread Matthew Garrett
. I cant give you any logs, because the panics dont get logged. Im getting sad :( If you provide the full text of the kernel panic, then there is some chance of people being able to help you - otherwise, I'm afraid it's impossible. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: New BCM 0x4312

2006-03-08 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 02:41:58PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote: But this one is a 4312 no? It's getting confusing :) Yeah. I can't find any real reference to the 4312, so it's quite possible that it's just a b/g version of the 4311. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: New BCM 0x4312

2006-03-08 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 03:15:54PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote: Matthew Garrett wrote: On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 02:41:58PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote: But this one is a 4312 no? It's getting confusing :) Yeah. I can't find any real reference to the 4312, so it's quite possible that it's

Re: New BCM 0x4312

2006-03-07 Thread Matthew Garrett
that it's wrong, in which case it's just a b/g card. I don't have any way of testing, unfortunately. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de http://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev

Re: New BCM 0x4312

2006-03-07 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 12:30:59PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: Various places seem to be claiming that the new Macs all have 802.11a, but I can't actually find anyone who's tested that. So it's possible that it's wrong, in which case it's just a b/g card. I don't have any way of testing

Re: New BCM 0x4312

2006-03-06 Thread Matthew Garrett
what the right thing to do there is. With this patch, I can associate, DHCP and transmit and receive data. Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx.h b/drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx.h index