[Prism54-devel] Prism54 development update

[Jean-Baptiste Note]

Hi Denis,

> I plan to modify it and NOT redistribute, but run modified fw
> to better understand what it does.

Understood !

> And btw, maybe I'm stupid, but where is that dump of unpacked fw?
> Don't see it at http://jbnote.free.fr/islsm/doku.php.
> (PCI fullmac and/or softmac would be useful to me)

The 2.4.3.4 softmac USB firmware with my comments is on

http://jbnote.free.fr/islsm/doku.php?id=re:disassembly_2_4_3_4

As soon as i'm through with tidying up the linux driver i'll 
script decompression and disassembly. In the meantime, feel free
to follow the steps on 

http://jbnote.free.fr/islsm/doku.php?id=re:firmware_reverse-engeneering_methodology#execute_the_code_in_a_virtual_machine

If you don't want to download virtera, I can set you up an account on my
machine.

> Downloading, thanks!

Beware the flags for the newlib compile are not what Sebastien uses. He
got rid of the io part (and plans to remove newlib altogether IIRC).

> Do you mean I load prism54 driver and just replace my old fullmac fw image
> by freemac?! I think that wouldn't work and you don't mean this.
> Then how?

Actually, no ! I only meant that the firmware upload and booting
procedure was the same (-pending Sebastien's response !-). Of course you
cannot communicat with this freemac as you did with the original
firmware. I wish you already could :)

> And where is freemac source or image?
> 
> Can you document it better at http://jbnote.free.fr/islsm/doku.php?

Leaving this to Seb !

You're right about ISLMON. My mistake.

> I meant that I would like to have a page similar to that ucLinux page
> which helps people to start hacking on free firmware.
> 
> http://jbnote.free.fr/islsm/doku.php is a bit disorganized in this respect...

Hum yeah. It was only a means to communicate for Seb and myself...

JB