[RFC][PATCH] bcmai: introduce AI driver

Rafał Miłecki zajec5 at gmail.com
Fri Apr 8 13:09:03 EDT 2011


2011/4/8 Rafał Miłecki <zajec5 at gmail.com>:
> 2011/4/6 Arend van Spriel <arend at broadcom.com>:
>> 3. Device identification
>>
>> The cores are identified by manufacturer, core id and revision in your
>> patch. I would not use the revision because 4 out of 5 times a revision
>> change does indicate a hardware change but no change in programming
>> interface. The enumeration data does contain a more selective field
>> indicating the core class (4 bits following the core identifier). I suggest
>> to replace the revision field by this class field.
>
> Could you say something more about *class*, please? For my BCM43224 it
> seems to be 0x0. WIll check BCM4313 in a moment.

Same for BCM4313.

BCM43224:
axi: Core 0 found: ChipCommon (manuf 0x4BF, id 0x800, rev 0x22, class 0x0)
axi: Core 1 found: IEEE 802.11 (manuf 0x4BF, id 0x812, rev 0x17, class 0x0)
axi: Core 2 found: PCIe (manuf 0x4BF, id 0x820, rev 0x0F, class 0x0)

BCM4313
axi: Core 0 found: ChipCommon (manuf 0x4BF, id 0x800, rev 0x24, class 0x0)
axi: Core 1 found: IEEE 802.11 (manuf 0x4BF, id 0x812, rev 0x18, class 0x0)
axi: Core 2 found: PCIe (manuf 0x4BF, id 0x820, rev 0x11, class 0x0)

-- 
Rafał



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