On Friday 26 March 2010, Larry Finger wrote:
Some recent BCM43XX devices lack an on-board SPROM. The pertinent data
from the SPROM could be included in the kernel; however, this presents
a problem in the generation of a unique, reproducible MAC address. The
solution is to initialize the address to a known, workable value. Thus,
the device will work without any further code. For an address that is
preserved across reloads or reboots, a set of udev routines has been
prepared that detect the special address and assign a random value that
is preserved in a second udev rule file. The random address should be
unique except for the case where a given box has more than one of these
cards. This case is handles by adding the DEVPATH to the recognition
rules.
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger larry.fin...@lwfinger.net
This I assume does not do anything for the idiot vendor who ships thousands
of bt dongles all with 11:11:11:11:11:11 set as the mac address? I got
stung with 2 of those things.
---
John,
It has been a long path, but this solution satisfies all the criticisms
that have been posted.
I suspect it is a little to invasive for 2.6.34. In addition, it fixes
a bug, but not a regression. As to introducing a regression, that could
only happen if ssb_is_sprom_available() returns false for some device
that does have an SPROM.
Larry
---
V2 - make virtual SPROM loading asynchronous.
V3 - eliminate the need for a special external utility
- set for unique MAC address even if a box has more than one of these
devices
V4 - handle the requirements without any firmware routines.
Index: wireless-testing/drivers/ssb/pci.c
===
--- wireless-testing.orig/drivers/ssb/pci.c
+++ wireless-testing/drivers/ssb/pci.c
@@ -613,6 +613,67 @@ static int sprom_extract(struct ssb_bus
return 0;
}
+static void ssb_get_vsprom(struct ssb_sprom *sprom)
+{
+ /* Get values that would have been extracted from SPROM.
+ * If sprom_extract_r8() is changed, this section must be
+ * changed as well. For any device with 5GHz capability,
+ * some variables will have to be changed.
+ */
+ sprom-revision = 8;
+ sprom-boardflags_lo = 0x0A01;
+ sprom-boardflags_hi = 0x0006;
+ sprom-boardflags2_lo = 0x;
+ sprom-boardflags2_hi = 0x;
+ sprom-ant_available_a = 0x00;
+ sprom-ant_available_bg = 0x03;
+ sprom-maxpwr_bg = 0x4A;
+ sprom-itssi_bg = 0x3E;
+ sprom-maxpwr_a = 0xFF;
+ sprom-itssi_a = 0xFF;
+ sprom-maxpwr_ah = 0xFF;
+ sprom-maxpwr_al = 0xFF;
+ sprom-gpio0 = 0x83;
+ sprom-gpio1 = 0xFF;
+ sprom-gpio2 = 0xFF;
+ sprom-gpio3 = 0xFF;
+ sprom-tri2g = 0x6C;
+ sprom-tri5g = 0x00;
+ sprom-tri5gl = 0xFF;
+ sprom-tri5gh = 0xFF;
+ sprom-rxpo2g = 0xFA;
+ sprom-rxpo5g = 0xFF;
+ sprom-rssismf2g = 0x0F;
+ sprom-rssismc2g = 0x00;
+ sprom-rssisav2g = 0x00;
+ sprom-bxa2g = 0x00;
+ sprom-rssismf5g = 0x0F;
+ sprom-rssismc5g = 0x0F;
+ sprom-rssisav5g = 0x07;
+ sprom-bxa5g = 0x03;
+ sprom-pa0b0 = 0x1a57;
+ sprom-pa0b1 = 0xF98A;
+ sprom-pa0b2 = 0xFE91;
+ sprom-pa1b0 = 0x;
+ sprom-pa1b1 = 0x;
+ sprom-pa1b2 = 0x;
+ sprom-pa1lob0 = 0x;
+ sprom-pa1lob1 = 0x;
+ sprom-pa1lob2 = 0x;
+ sprom-pa1hib0 = 0x;
+ sprom-pa1hib1 = 0x;
+ sprom-pa1hib2 = 0x;
+ sprom-cck2gpo = 0x;
+ sprom-ofdm2gpo = 0x0002;
+ sprom-ofdm5glpo = 0x;
+ sprom-ofdm5gpo = 0x;
+ sprom-ofdm5ghpo = 0x;
+ /* assign a dummy, but usable, MAC address */
+ memset(sprom-il0mac, 0x82, 6);
+ memset(sprom-et0mac, 0xFF, 6);
+ memset(sprom-et1mac, 0xFF, 6);
+}
+
static int ssb_pci_sprom_get(struct ssb_bus *bus,
struct ssb_sprom *sprom)
{
@@ -621,8 +682,9 @@ static int ssb_pci_sprom_get(struct ssb_
u16 *buf;
if (!ssb_is_sprom_available(bus)) {
- ssb_printk(KERN_ERR PFX No SPROM available!\n);
- return -ENODEV;
+ /* This device has no SPROM. Get values from a real SPROM */
+ ssb_get_vsprom(sprom);
+ return 0;
}
buf = kcalloc(SSB_SPROMSIZE_WORDS_R123, sizeof(u16), GFP_KERNEL);
Index: wireless-testing/drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c
===
--- wireless-testing.orig/drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c
+++ wireless-testing/drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c
@@ -4395,6 +4395,7 @@ static int b43_op_add_interface(struct i
struct b43_wl *wl = hw_to_b43_wl(hw);
struct b43_wldev *dev;
int err = -EOPNOTSUPP;
+ u8 test_addr[] = {0x82, 0x82, 0x82, 0x82, 0x82, 0x82};
/* TODO: allow WDS/AP devices to coexist */
@@ -4417,6 +4418,19 @@ static int b43_op_add_interface(struct i
wl-if_type =
