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Date:      Sun, 25 Sep 2011 21:38:57 +0800
From:      Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
To:        Justin Hibbits <chmeeedalf@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org, FreeBSD PowerPC ML <freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: CFT: macio attachment for if_wi
Message-ID:  <CAJ-Vmo=ch-g2Sz4vdabCLeAkz96Dxef96vy5Y-7Z=y1drsJKvA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <54FFB452-534A-46C6-950B-880EB36F61C1@gmail.com>
References:  <54FFB452-534A-46C6-950B-880EB36F61C1@gmail.com>

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On 25 September 2011 20:54, Justin Hibbits <chmeeedalf@gmail.com> wrote:
> Attached is a patch adding the macio attachment for the if_wi driver, to
> support the airport card in PowerPC macs. =A0To do this I needed to modif=
y the
> wi_read_bap and wi_write_bap functions to use the bus space stream functi=
ons
> instead of regular functions, like NetBSD and OpenBSD do. =A0I currently =
get a
> 'no carrier' status from ifconfig, so I can't fully test connections, onl=
y
> the attachment. =A0Testing wanted and needed to make sure I didn't break
> anything.

I think it's worth digging into exactly why this works. Can we find
out whether the card firmware does magically speak host endian?

Since you haven't seen it associate to anything yet, I can't help but
wonder if there are lots of other random endianness issues creeping
throughout the driver.



Adrian



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