[PATCH] libertas: add sysfs hooks to update boot2 and persistent firmware

[Dan Williams]

On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 11:18 -0400, John Watlington wrote:
> On Jun 3, 2008, at 11:08 AM, David Woodhouse wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 11:03 -0400, John Watlington wrote:
> >>
> >> My bad.   This is now Trac #7170
> >> http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7170
> >>
> >> All of the information in this ticket comes from email exchanged with
> >> dcbw and dwmw2 when I first discovered it.
> >
> > Didn't we fix that months ago by increasing the time we wait for
> > flashing? Is this really what Ricardo was talking about?
> 
> I think you are referring to same increased time that Dan mentions in
> his comment ?    I don't remember any discussion after that email
> exchange (on Feb. 1, 2008).   But then again, my memory is going...
> 
> > He needs to be careful he doesn't get the same kind of reputation as
> > Michail already has. We have enough people whose words need to be  
> > taken
> > with a _large_ pinch of salt around here already.
> 
> Let's keep the discussion professional, please.
> 
> I was under the impression that there was one big difference between  
> the method
> used in the driver and the userspace method.   One uses the host  
> processor to
> do the programming, and the other uses the ARM on the module.

Nope.  There is no difference.  They both should send _exactly_ the same
USB byte stream to the usb8388.  If they do not, there is a bug.
Unfortunately nobody at Marvell who actually _has_ documentation on how
to flash for the active antenna and later boot2 firmware changes (if
any) volunteered that information or tried to fix the tool, to my
knowledge.  I didn't have active antenna hardware myself, and therefore
I can't risk bricking the _only_ usb8388 I have with random firmware
that wasn't intended for my part.  I'm happy to test this out and try to
get the userspace tool working again if given:

1) one or more active antenna modules to potentially brick
2) documentation on what exactly has changed (if anything) between boot2
3107 and the active antenna boot2 firmware

dan