On Friday 25 April 2008 16:16:49 Larry Finger wrote:
> Michael Buesch wrote:
> > On Friday 25 April 2008 06:55:54 Larry Finger wrote:
> >> Michael,
> >>
> >> I have discovered that both sprom_extract_r123() in the ssb driver, 
> >> and ssb-sprom use a two-byte quantity to extract the board revision. 
> >> In the specifications detailed in 
> >> http://bcm-v4.sipsolutions.net/SPROM, a single-byte is used for this 
> >> parameter.
> >>
> >> It is unlikely that this causes any serious difficulties; however, at 
> >> least one fixup depends on the board revision, and I wanted to be 
> >> certain that you were aware of the situation.
> > 
> > I'm not sure what you're talking about.
> > 
> > #define  SSB_SPROM1_BINF_BREV           0x00FF  /* Board Revision */
> > SPEX(board_rev, SSB_SPROM1_BINF, SSB_SPROM1_BINF_BREV, 0);
> > 
> 
> Yes - 2 bytes in the code above, but the spec says bits 0-7!

I really really don't understand that.
The code quoted above does use a mask of 0xFF, which is one byte.
And it uses a shift of 0. Which results on bits 0-7.

-- 
Greetings Michael.
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