On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 17:58:01 -0400
"John W. Linville" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Are you proposing to add a third driver and deprecate the softmac
> driver? Or can we treat this as a port of the existing driver
> to mac80211? I think that might be better for users and distros,
> and might let
On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 20:38:17 -0500
Larry Finger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 4. Once bcm43xx-mac80211 gets merged to mainline, then Michael's driver
> should become bcm43xx and my driver gets its PCI IDs stripped to the
> 802.11b-only devices and once again becomes bcm4301. This name change for
>
[Just a quick review, mostly about coding style. If it works, I ACK this.]
On Thu, 02 Aug 2007 10:53:11 -0500
Larry Finger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> +#define BCM43xx_RX_MAX_SSI 60
A comment here wouldn't hurt.
> /* MMIO offsets */
> #define BCM43xx_MMIO_DMA0_REASON 0x20
> @@
On Thu, 02 Aug 2007 10:53:17 -0500
Larry Finger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> +static char big_buffer[1024*256];
static char big_buffer[1024 * 256];
> + bcmerr(dev->wl, "debugfs: Board not initialized.\n");
> res = -EFAULT;
> goto out_unlock;
> }
> -
Hi Larry,
I happen to have some spare time right now and should have next months. As
I didn't hear about anybody interested in maintaining b43legacy, I started
with porting some patches from b43 from Michael.
In case I feel comfortable with this, and get sure that I'll have the
needed time for a
Sync A PHY initialization code with specs, allowing further work on A PHY
support. Note: G PHY initialization is involved as well.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
Please test. This could break badly 802.11g devi
On Sun, 4 Nov 2007 18:25:05 +0100
Stefano Brivio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Michael Busch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> instead
Use the retry limits provided by mac80211.
The patch to b43 by Michael Buesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> has been ported to
b43legacy.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Index: wireless-2.6/drivers/net/wireless/b43l
Use a consistent naming scheme for the ops.
The patch to b43 by Michael Buesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> has been ported to
b43legacy.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Index: wireless-2.6/drivers/net/wireless/b43l
Fix possible buffer overrun.
The patch to b43 by Michael Buesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> has been ported to
b43legacy.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Index: wireless-2.6/drivers/net/wireless/b43lega
e rfkill stuff before register.
The patch to b43 by Michael Buesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> has been ported to
b43legacy.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Index: wireless-2.6/drivers/net/wireles
Fix my copyright notices in b43 and b43legacy.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Michael Buesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Index: wireless-2.6/drivers/net/wireless/b43/leds.c
===
--- wireless-2.6.orig
As b43legacy is going to be orphaned, add me as a maintainer. Fix URLs for
the related website and fix my e-mail address in MAINTAINERS file.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Larry Finger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Index: wireless-2.6
Rewrite and sync A PHY initialization with specs, thus allowing for further
work to be done on 802.11a support. Note that A PHY initialization involves
G PHYs as well.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Acked-by: Michael Buesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Index:
. So we must disable
IRQs before changing the device status.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
--- wireless-2.6/drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c.orig 2007-11-07
17:55:30.553591943 +0100
+++ wireless-2.6/drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c2007-11-07
17:59:23.356020048
option). So we must disable IRQs before changing the device
status.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
--- wireless-2.6/drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/main.c.orig 2007-11-07
18:27:54.710703615 +0100
+++ wireless-2.6/drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/main.c 2007-11-07
Fix dependencies for built-in b43legacy.
The patch to b43 by Michael Buesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> has been ported to
b43legacy.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
Index: wireless-2.6/drivers/net/wireless/b43le
On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 21:24:07 +0100
Michael Buesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Stefano, can you check if this patch is already applied to b43legacy?
It wasn't, I just sent it. Thank you.
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Stefano
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On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 21:21:55 +0100
Michael Buesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Fix a sparse warning about a nonstatic function.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Acked-by: Stefano Brivio <[EMAIL PROTEC
Remove bcm43xx. Fix some left-over URLs and ifdefs in b43 and b43legacy
drivers.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
John,
this is for 2.6.25 - in case you didn't get the full patch. Please also run:
git rm -r drivers/wireless/bcm43xx
---
Index: w
On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 17:27:50 +0100
Stefano Brivio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> John,
> this is for 2.6.25 - in case you didn't get the full patch. Please also
> run: git rm -r drivers/wireless/bcm43xx
git rm -r drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx, of course. :
Remove bcm43xx.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
John,
this is for 2.6.25. Please also run:
git rm -r drivers/wireless/bcm43xx
---
Index: wireless-2.6/Documentation/networking/bcm43
Fix some left-over URLs and ifdefs in b43 and b43legacy drivers.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
John,
this is for 2.6.24. Sorry for the noise, please just discard the previous
patch.
---
Index: wireless-2.6/drivers/net/wireless/b43/
Remove bcm43xx.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
John,
I hope this is the last try, v2 was line wrapped. :) This is for 2.6.25.
Please also run:
git rm -r drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx
---
Index: wireless-2.6/Documentation/networking/bcm43
Fix some left-over URLs and ifdefs in b43 and b43legacy drivers.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
John,
I hope this is the last try, v2 was line wrapped. :) This is for 2.6.24.
---
Index: wireless-2.6/drivers/net/wireless/b43/
On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 23:00:11 +0100
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well, are you 100% sure that everyone interested knows that this drivers
> is going out in 2.6.25 and no one will object?
The maintainers know. Having both drivers in 2.6.24 should help find out if
there's anythin
On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 23:36:44 +0100
Andreas Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Stefano Brivio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 23:00:11 +0100
> > "Rafael J. Wysocki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >> Wel
On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 00:19:55 +0100
Andreas Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Stefano Brivio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > This is strange. Because it has been developed mainly on PPC. Plus, if
> > you could better define "does not work"
>
On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 10:26:18 -0500
"John W. Linville" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Acked-by: Stefano Brivio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
--
Ciao
Stefano
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Fix calc_nrssi_slope() which caused PHY TX errors on devices containing a
802.11a PHY. The code is synced to v4 specs and relevant registers are
renamed accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
Michael, John,
this fixes a not-so-fatal error with bcm4309 and po
Fix calc_nrssi_slope() which caused PHY TX errors on devices containing a
802.11a PHY. The code is synced to v4 specs and relevant registers are
renamed accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
Previous version introduced a duplicated flag and a redundant n
Fix calc_nrssi_slope() which caused PHY TX errors on devices containing a
802.11a PHY. The code is synced to v4 specs and relevant registers are
renamed accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
It looks like I got confused by a comment and us
Fix calc_nrssi_slope() which caused PHY TX errors on devices containing a
802.11a PHY. The code is synced to v4 specs and relevant registers are
renamed accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
Sorry, I inlined the wrong file. Hope this is the last
On Tue, 4 Dec 2007 13:23:47 +0100
Francesco Gringoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I spent a couple of day trying to collect all documents about what
> Broadcom has acquired before 1999 and that could have been
> implemented into AirForce Mac Processors. I didn't find anything that
> was expl
Citando Michael Buesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Tuesday 11 December 2007 13:43:50 Michael Buesch wrote:
>> This patch fixes the transmission problems introduced by
>> commit f04b3787bbce4567e28069a9ec97dcd804626ac7
>>
>> It depends on
>> [PATCH] b43: Fix ofdmtab write regression
>>
>> I'm not sur
"John W. Linville" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 11:56:24AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>>
>> * Michael Buesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> > Oh come on. b43 is more than a year old now. How long should we wait?
>> > Two or three? Forever?
>>
>> possibly forever, if you don
On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 21:54:20 +0100
Michael Buesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This fixes antenna selection in b43. It adds a sanity check
> for the antenna numbers we get from mac80211.
Just FYI. I'm going to port this patch to b43legacy, as soon as I figure
out exactly the differences between v
On Sun, 06 Jan 2008 19:03:12 -0500
Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Quoting "Rafael J. Wysocki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> >> People don't want N-PHY support?
> >
> > Well, as it sometimes is said "the better is an enemy of the good". If they
> > feel comfortable without the N-PHY, why wo
On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 19:46:41 -0500
David Ellingsworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I wish I could say the same for the b43legacy driver.. here are my results
> from the same version of aireplay:
>
> # ./aireplay-ng -9 wlan0
> 19:27:51 Trying broadcast probe requests...
> 19:27:53 No Answer...
Fix rfkill code which caused a use-after-free bug.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
Index: wireless-2.6/drivers/net/wireless/b43/rfkill.c
===
--- wireless-2.6.orig/drivers/net/wireless/b43/rfkill.c
+++ wi
Fix rfkill code which caused a use-after-free bug. Thanks to David
Woodhouse for spotting this out.
Cc: David Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
Index: wireless-2.6/drivers/net/wireless/b43leg
On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 13:27:42 -0500
Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have finally found some time and hardware to test it, but the tarball
> is overwhelming at its 186M. And the worst thing, the server
> disconnected after 30M and appears to be down right now. P.S. It's up,
> ETA is 48
On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 12:15:38 +0100
Michael Buesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> We must kill rfkill in any error paths that trigger after rfkill init.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Acked-by: Stefano Brivio <[EMAIL PROTE
been ported to b43legacy.
Cc: Michael Buesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
Index: linux-2.6.24/drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/dma.c
===
--- linux-2.6.24.orig/drivers/net/wirele
uesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
Index: linux-2.6.24/drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/main.c
===
--- linux-2.6.24.orig/drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/main.c
+++ linux-2.6.24/dri
46 0c 8b 54 24 14 80 7a 0b 00 74
EIP: [] b43legacy_pio_handle_txstatus+0xbb/0x210 [b43legacy] SS:ESP
0068:c04f4ef4
Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
Index: linux-2.6.24/drivers/net/wireless/b43
safe to drop these packets, as the association they belong to
is not guaranteed anymore anyway.
This is a security fix in the sense that it prevents information leakage.
This patch by Michael Buesch has been ported to b43legacy.
Cc: Michael Buesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Stefano
On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 06:16:21 -0200
Diego Graselli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [ 890.171976] b43-phy0 ERROR: Cannot request IRQ-0
>
> I've tried boot with 'pci=biosirq' and 'pci=irqpool' but dmesg said the same
I suggest that you should tell your BIOS that you are using a PnP aware OS.
In case
On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 09:36:53 -0700
Larry Finger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Diego Graselli wrote:
> > Hello, I can't get my wireless work. I've followed all steps as
> > http://linuxwireless.org/
> >
> > My laptop : compaq f565la with ubuntu 7.10
> >
> > lspci |grep road
> > 03:00.0 Network
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 20:04:54 -0200
Diego Graselli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks for your soon reply, but I compiled 2.6.24 kernel patched with
> http://linuxwireless.org/download/b43/patch_2.6.24_for_4311_2, and then
> compiled and unloaded and loaded compat-wireless-2.6, and when I se
On Sat, 02 Feb 2008 10:06:04 +0100
tICT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Are there any workaround to increase sensitivity?
Does anything change if you force the bitrate to 1M? (or 6M if 802.11a
only is available)
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Stefano
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On Mon, 04 Feb 2008 18:21:07 -0700
Larry Finger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I agree with the intent of the patch. Assuming that it fixes the problem
> found by Matti Viljanen,
> you have my ACK. BTW, b43legacy will also need a variation of the patch as
> the earlier BCM4306
> models could have
These patches are mostly ports from b43. Please note that patch 2/4 is
merged with all fixes subsequently posted for the original patch.
It would be fine to have at least patch 4/4 into 2.6.25, but it's not so
relevant (only hits users who force DMA mode over PIO with 64 bits processors
running a
This adds some definitions for the MAC control register and uses them. This is
basically no functional change.
The patch by Michael Buesch has been ported to b43legacy.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
Index: wireless-2.6/drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/b43le
This fixes uploading of the beacon data and writing of the TIM and DTIM offsets.
The patch by Michael Buesch has been ported to b43legacy.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
Index: wireless-2.6/drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/b43le
Fix the B43legacy_WARN_ON macro so that it will evaluate expressions.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
Index: wireless-2.6/drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/b43legacy.h
===
--- wireless-2.6.orig/drivers/net/wi
ed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
Index: wireless-2.6/drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/dma.c
===
--- wireless-2.6.orig/drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/dma.c
+++ wireless-2.6/drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/dma.c
@@ -
On Fri, 8 Feb 2008 16:41:59 +0100 (CET)
"bou.gui" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> And dmesg says :
> [ 118.782933] b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43/ucode5.fw" not found or
> load failed.
> [ 118.782943] b43-phy0 ERROR: You must go to
> http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#devicefirmwa
the .ko for the "Firmware-ID:
xxx" string.)
While the driver might still support other versions of the firmware for backward
compatibility, this will always print out the officially supported version,
which
people _should_ use.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
On Sat, 9 Feb 2008 20:41:40 -0200
"Bruno Ribeiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ok, my fault.
> But I think that you should make it more explicit in the b43 page
> which is the correct version for the most general available version of
> the driver, wich is the one included in the mainline kernel. I
On Sat, 9 Feb 2008 19:45:43 -0800
Brian Lavender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 09:08:00AM -0700, Larry Finger wrote:
> >
> > (2) Would people that are having trouble with Ubuntu systems please READ
> > the summary of the list? I get really tired of answering the same quest
The firmware version information should always get printed. Not only on a
debug build.
The patch by Michael Buesch has been ported to b43legacy.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
Index: wireless-2.6/drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/
This adds the firmware ID to modinfo.
The patch by Michael Buesch has been ported to b43legacy.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
Index: wireless-2.6/drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/main.c
===
--- wirele
EE80211_FCTL_STYPE))
> + == (IEEE80211_FTYPE_MGMT | IEEE80211_STYPE_BEACON)) ||
> + dev->wl->radiotap_enabled) {
> u16 low_mactime_now;
>
> b43legacy_tsf_read(dev, &status.mactime);
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <[EMAIL PR
[Thank you. I'm still cloning the wireless-testing tree...]
On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 14:42:29 +0100
Michael Buesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Fix a typo.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Acked-by: Stefano Brivio <[EMAIL
On Sat, 1 Mar 2008 17:05:50 -0800
"Ray Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Kernel version 2.6.24+ a little (but pre-rc1).
>
> I have a wireless base station that I switched from B/G mixed mode to
> purely B to try to debug a separate issue with a different device on
> my network. As soon as I did t
On Tue, 4 Mar 2008 20:31:13 +0100
Michael Buesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This fixes the module init message to tell that the legacy
> driver loaded. This makes it less confusing, in case both drivers are loaded.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
This fixes an hard crash which happened upon driver loading on bcm4303 rev.
2 devices.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
John, this is for 2.6.26.
---
diff --git a/drivers/ssb/main.c b/drivers/ssb/main.c
index e123719..4bc0e8b 100644
--- a/drivers/ssb/main.c
+++ b/drive
This allows for the correct initial values to be uploaded to bcm4303
devices. It should be correct, but I can't reliably test this as I suspect
there's something going wrong with an hardware rfkill switch on my laptop.
Please test.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Sun, 6 Apr 2008 17:20:02 +0200
Michael Buesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sunday 06 April 2008 17:05:07 Stefano Brivio wrote:
> > This fixes an hard crash which happened upon driver loading on bcm4303 rev.
> > 2 devices.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Stefano Br
This fixes some timings for pre-TBTT and synthetic PU.
The patch by Michael Buesch has been ported to b43legacy.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
John, this is for 2.6.26.
---
Index: bcm-testing/drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/b43le
This fixes a DMA mapping leakage in the case where we reject a DMA buffer
because of its address.
The patch by Michael Buesch has been ported to b43legacy.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Christian Casteyde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
John, this is a fix for 2.6.2
On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:16:36 +0200
Michael Buesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This fixes b43legacy for the SSB DMA API change.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: Stefano Brivio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Acked-by: Stefano Brivio <[EM
On Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:11:04 -0500
Larry Finger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 1. BCM4301 - With the ssb patch fixing IRQ TPS flag handling, I was
> finally able to read beacons; however, no output interrupts were
> delivered.
[...]
> I'm still looking for some differences
> between bcm43xx and
On Sun, 6 Apr 2008 17:10:53 +0200
Stefano Brivio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This allows for the correct initial values to be uploaded to bcm4303
> devices. It should be correct, but I can't reliably test this as I suspect
> there's something going wrong with an har
On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 12:33:00 +0100
Michael Buesch wrote:
> On Saturday 23 January 2010 04:36:50 David Woodhouse wrote:
> >
> > Can you provide a list of existing subscribers?
>
> I think Stefano has access to our berlios mailman.
Last time I tried, I couldn't get berlios mailman to export the
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