[Prism54-devel] prism54-usb firmware loading

Helmar Spangenberg hspangenberg at frey.de
Tue Jun 8 20:20:11 UTC 2004


Am Montag, 7. Juni 2004 23:41 schrieb Mark Reiche:
(...)
> Could it be - as the "newer" firmware is much smaller then the older
> ones - that some functionality was moved from the firmware to the driver?

I don't think so. The driver simply needs some further development.

(...)

> I have quite some general programming experience - but not on kernel
> programming; and until now I didn't see, where to start - as the driver
> simply hung for some reason. That problem is solved, and if someone
> could give me a clue, I would like to contribute some of my unfortunatly
> also very little spare time on that...
>

Well, I'm trying to port isl_ioctl.c from the pci branch to USB. Very slowly, 
but hopefully steadily. One question to the list maintainers: Is there a 
possibility to publish the results e.g. in CVS?

Helmar


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