Marvell regulatory domain info storage?

[Christopher Blizzard]

Ronak Chokshi wrote:
> The OLPC manufacturing data that I was talking about is in the same 
> FLASH that contains the system BIOS.  Is that the sort of "external 
> flash memory" that you recommend?
> 
>>> Yes.
> 
> Ronak

Given the choice between putting this on the onboard SPI flash and 
putting it as a config option for the driver, I would rather it be part 
of the driver.  It's just more convenient for us and the other option 
just adds another level of pain for per-country flashing.

--Chris

>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mitch Bradley [mailto:wmb at firmworks.com] 
> Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 4:26 PM
> To: Ronak Chokshi
> Cc: Dan Williams; devel at laptop.org; Michail Bletsas; jg at laptop.org;
> libertas-dev at lists.infradead.org
> Subject: Re: Marvell regulatory domain info storage?
> 
> Ronak Chokshi wrote:
>> -        Burning the region code in the manufacturing data of the 
>> EEPROM is an option but a slightly difficult one. A better suggestion 
>> would be maintain this information on an external flash memory and 
>> have the driver read this information from the flash. This is what we 
>> have suggested to most of our customers also.
>>
> The OLPC manufacturing data that I was talking about is in the same 
> FLASH that contains the system BIOS.  Is that the sort of "external 
> flash memory" that you recommend?
> 
> We were not intending to change the EEPROM that is attached to the 
> Marvell wireless device on a per-county basis.
>> This also has an added advantage that it keeps the WLAN module the 
>> same for all the laptops going in several countries.
>>
>>  
>>
> Yes, that is our intention.
> 
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