Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 16 Dec 2016 10:18:51 +0100 | From | "Luis R. Rodriguez" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/5] firmware: revamp firmware documentation |
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On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 02:30:22PM +0100, Rafał Miłecki wrote: > On 13 December 2016 at 14:26, Daniel Wagner <daniel.wagner@bmw-carit.de> wrote: > >> +* Some firmware files may be really large in size. The remote-proc > >> subsystem > >> + is an example subsystem which deals with these sorts of firmware > >> +* The firmware may need to be scraped out from some device specific > >> location > >> + dynamically, an example is calibration data for for some WiFi chipsets. > > > > > > Maybe it is worth to mention, that the calibration data is unique to a given > > chip, so it is individual. That is you would need to built for each device > > you sell its own kernel. > > It's commonly unique to the device model, not a chip. The same chip > can be used with different power amplifiers or different antennas. > That's why you need model (board) specific calibration data.
From what I recall in my 802.11 days this can be often very specific per *batch* of cards not just chip/device model, so this depends on the manufacturing process and date.
Luis
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