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Hauke Mehrtens 32998cc96a bcma: use fallback sprom if no on chip sprom is available bcma should check for a fallback sprom every time it can not find a sprom on the card itself or a normal external sprom mapped into the memory of the chip. When otp sprom support was introduced it tried to read out the sprom from the wireless chip also if no otp sprom was available. This caused a Data bus error in bcma_sprom_get() when reading out the sprom for the SoC. This fixes a regression introduced in commit: commit `10d8493cd9` Author: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com> Date: Tue Mar 6 15:50:48 2012 +0100 bcma: add support for on-chip OTP memory used for SPROM storage This patch was tested on a Netgear WNDR3400 (Broadcom BCM4718 SoC). Reported-by: Nick Bowler <nbowler@elliptictech.com> Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de> Acked-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>		2012-04-16 13:32:01 -04:00
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Kconfig	bcma: fix build error on MIPS; implicit pcibios_enable_device	2012-04-10 14:13:30 -04:00
Makefile	bcma: add mips driver	2011-08-08 14:29:26 -04:00
README	…
TODO	…
bcma_private.h	bcma: add PCIe host controller	2012-02-06 14:53:04 -05:00
core.c	bcma: fix implicit use of export.h contents	2011-10-31 19:32:02 -04:00
driver_chipcommon.c	bcma: fix implicit use of export.h contents	2011-10-31 19:32:02 -04:00
driver_chipcommon_pmu.c	bcma: silence PMU warning for BCM4331	2012-03-07 13:56:37 -05:00
driver_mips.c	bcma: get CPU clock	2011-08-08 14:29:29 -04:00
driver_pci.c	bcma: add PCIe host controller	2012-02-06 14:53:04 -05:00
driver_pci_host.c	bcma: fix build error on MIPS; implicit pcibios_enable_device	2012-04-10 14:13:30 -04:00
host_pci.c	bcma: make some functions __devinit	2012-02-06 14:53:03 -05:00
host_soc.c	bcma: add SOC bus	2011-08-08 14:29:25 -04:00
main.c	bcma: export bcma_find_core	2012-03-05 15:20:50 -05:00
scan.c	Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless	2012-02-15 16:24:37 -05:00
scan.h	…
sprom.c	bcma: use fallback sprom if no on chip sprom is available	2012-04-16 13:32:01 -04:00

README

Broadcom introduced new bus as replacement for older SSB. It is based on AMBA,
however from programming point of view there is nothing AMBA specific we use.

Standard AMBA drivers are platform specific, have hardcoded addresses and use
AMBA standard fields like CID and PID.

In case of Broadcom's cards every device consists of:
1) Broadcom specific AMBA device. It is put on AMBA bus, but can not be treated
   as standard AMBA device. Reading it's CID or PID can cause machine lockup.
2) AMBA standard devices called ports or wrappers. They have CIDs (AMBA_CID)
   and PIDs (0x103BB369), but we do not use that info for anything. One of that
   devices is used for managing Broadcom specific core.

Addresses of AMBA devices are not hardcoded in driver and have to be read from
EPROM.

In this situation we decided to introduce separated bus. It can contain up to
16 devices identified by Broadcom specific fields: manufacturer, id, revision
and class.