[PATCH] ssb: Implement fast powerup delay calculation

Larry Finger Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net
Sat May 1 14:27:42 EDT 2010


On 05/01/2010 01:15 PM, Michael Buesch wrote:
> On Saturday 01 May 2010 19:42:27 Larry Finger wrote:
>> I may have gotten the MMIO offset part wrong in the specs, but the
>> Broadcom driver definitely writes to offset 0x648 at that point.
> 
> I do not think you are right.
> 
> First: The write has to happen to the 802.11 core and not to the chipcommon core.
> 
> Second: The code that was touched by Gábor is _very_ early in the SSB init.
> Way ahead of the wireless core init. The specs state that the delay value has to be written
> after the wireless core init is nearly done.
> We do _exactly_ that in b43.
> 
> The only thing that needs to be done is to add the additional switch statement.
> No MMIO writes have to be touched.

OK, I changed the spec to remove the write.

Larry



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