Marvell regulatory domain info storage?

[Jim Gettys]

On Sun, 2006-10-01 at 10:55 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Talking with Mitch this week brought up an interesting question.  Where
> regulatory domain information for the wireless stored?  We have to know
> what channels we can(not) operate on for a given country, and therefore
> must communicate that information to the laptop.
> 
> Does the Marvell chip have internal EEPROM that we write the appropriate
> region code to?  Or must we pull that value from the SPI flash and write
> it to the card during init?  

This should be pretty easy.  On the manufacturing line, they know what
language/keyboard they are loading, and the machine's destination.

> It appears that the driver pulls a preset
> region code from the card, see wlan_ret_get_hw_spec() in wlan_cmdresp.c.
> That indicates that the region code is either in (a) firmware, or (b) in
> EEPROM on the card.  The region code may apparently be set from
> userspace with a private ioctl.
> 
> Thoughts?  At worst, we do country-specific flashes, which we were
> already going to do for fonts & translations.  At best, the server
> and/or firstboot process communicates region code somehow.
>  

Doesn't help: you could be off frequency for these operations.
                           - Jim

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Jim Gettys
One Laptop Per Child