On Sat, 2008-01-19 at 04:31 +0800, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 14:47 -0500, Dan Williams wrote: > > What is the post-boot firmware flash functionality supposed to apply to, > > the host-less active antenna? (which is what I heretofore had > > understood). > > As Ben says, they're the same thing. If you don't load the firmware > within 5 seconds of the boot2 code starting up, the thing loads its own > firmware from the internal flash.
Hmm, ok... So all the external USB 8388 dongles have a larger SPI flash to contain both the Boot2 code and the 100K thick firmware? Dan > Yes, it's horrid. It doesn't even preserve the boot2 version, because we > did some stupid hack to preserve that in the _driver_ rather than > keeping it internal, so when we send the CMD_802_11_RESET command to > kick the device back into boot2, we get 'device firmware changed' from > the kernel and it appears as a completely new device... > > Ideally, we want to just kill the auto-mesh-repeater mode, where boot2 > times out after 5 seconds and loads the firmware from the internal flash > (which is obviously larger on these devices than on the XO). Can we > achieve that just by updating to a 'normal' Boot2 version from the XO? > > (Yes, I should be sleeping. No, I have no idea what timezone I'm in). > _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel