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

Michail Bletsas mbletsas at laptop.org
Tue Jun 3 16:02:53 EDT 2008


Dan Williams <dcbw at redhat.com> wrote on 06/03/2008 01:50:59 PM:


> > > 
> > That's a good suggestion.
> > From a practical perspective though, in XOs, the onboard interface is 
> > always eth0 these days.
> 
> Yes, but I thought the discussion was more about active antenna updates,
> where you may have more than one usb8388, and thus you actually care
> about updating a specific adapter.  In the normal XO case, you only have
> one usb8388, and thus the userspace flash tool will work just fine.
> 

In general, you don't have to touch boot2 (and with the newer chips you 
won't be able, even if you wanted  ;-)
The discussion here is mainly on how to burn new firmware into stand-alone 
"active antenna" modules which are going to be used around XOs. Thus, it 
is very important to make sure that we can program those using XOs.


M.




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