Re: RFC: A workaround for BCM43XX devices with no on-board SPROM

2010-03-19 Thread Michael Buesch
On Thursday 18 March 2010 22:38:17 Larry Finger wrote: On 03/18/2010 02:31 PM, Michael Buesch wrote: On Thursday 18 March 2010 18:46:35 Larry Finger wrote: (1) Modify b43-fwcutter to take data from an existing SPROM, Why not extend the ssb-sprom tool? I don't think this has anything to

Re: RFC: A workaround for BCM43XX devices with no on-board SPROM

2010-03-19 Thread Johannes Berg
On Thu, 2010-03-18 at 16:10 -0500, Larry Finger wrote: On 03/18/2010 03:53 PM, Johannes Berg wrote: On Thu, 2010-03-18 at 12:46 -0500, Larry Finger wrote: Michael, I'm switching this discussion from the kernel Bugzilla to the lists. As you know, but I'm restating for anyone that has

Re: RFC: A workaround for BCM43XX devices with no on-board SPROM

2010-03-19 Thread John W. Linville
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 08:31:24PM +0100, Michael Buesch wrote: On Thursday 18 March 2010 18:46:35 Larry Finger wrote: It it reasonable to keep the vendor portion of the MAC and only replace the serial number, or would it be better to randomize all 6 octants? I think it doesn't really

Re: RFC: A workaround for BCM43XX devices with no on-board SPROM

2010-03-19 Thread Johannes Berg
On Thu, 2010-03-18 at 12:46 -0500, Larry Finger wrote: Michael, I'm switching this discussion from the kernel Bugzilla to the lists. As you know, but I'm restating for anyone that has not read our previous discussions, the b43 driver needs to be changed to handle some of the newer devices

RFC: A workaround for BCM43XX devices with no on-board SPROM

2010-03-18 Thread Larry Finger
Michael, I'm switching this discussion from the kernel Bugzilla to the lists. As you know, but I'm restating for anyone that has not read our previous discussions, the b43 driver needs to be changed to handle some of the newer devices do not have an on-board SPROM. It would be trivial to

Re: RFC: A workaround for BCM43XX devices with no on-board SPROM

2010-03-18 Thread Michael Buesch
On Thursday 18 March 2010 18:46:35 Larry Finger wrote: (1) Modify b43-fwcutter to take data from an existing SPROM, Why not extend the ssb-sprom tool? I don't think this has anything to do with firmware, except that we (ab)use the firmware loading mechanism of the kernel for loading the blob

Re: RFC: A workaround for BCM43XX devices with no on-board SPROM

2010-03-18 Thread Nicolas de Pesloüan
Larry Finger wrote : Michael, I'm switching this discussion from the kernel Bugzilla to the lists. As you know, but I'm restating for anyone that has not read our previous discussions, the b43 driver needs to be changed to handle some of the newer devices do not have an on-board SPROM. It

Re: RFC: A workaround for BCM43XX devices with no on-board SPROM

2010-03-18 Thread Larry Finger
On 03/18/2010 03:53 PM, Johannes Berg wrote: On Thu, 2010-03-18 at 12:46 -0500, Larry Finger wrote: Michael, I'm switching this discussion from the kernel Bugzilla to the lists. As you know, but I'm restating for anyone that has not read our previous discussions, the b43 driver needs to be

Re: RFC: A workaround for BCM43XX devices with no on-board SPROM

2010-03-18 Thread Larry Finger
On 03/18/2010 02:31 PM, Michael Buesch wrote: On Thursday 18 March 2010 18:46:35 Larry Finger wrote: (1) Modify b43-fwcutter to take data from an existing SPROM, Why not extend the ssb-sprom tool? I don't think this has anything to do with firmware, except that we (ab)use the firmware

Re: RFC: A workaround for BCM43XX devices with no on-board SPROM

2010-03-18 Thread Larry Finger
On 03/18/2010 04:20 PM, Johannes Berg wrote: On Thu, 2010-03-18 at 16:10 -0500, Larry Finger wrote: On 03/18/2010 03:53 PM, Johannes Berg wrote: On Thu, 2010-03-18 at 12:46 -0500, Larry Finger wrote: Michael, I'm switching this discussion from the kernel Bugzilla to the lists. As you know,

Re: RFC: A workaround for BCM43XX devices with no on-board SPROM

2010-03-18 Thread Johannes Berg
On Thu, 2010-03-18 at 16:20 -0400, John W. Linville wrote: On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 08:31:24PM +0100, Michael Buesch wrote: On Thursday 18 March 2010 18:46:35 Larry Finger wrote: It it reasonable to keep the vendor portion of the MAC and only replace the serial number, or would it be