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Oleksandr Rybalko, 03/03/2012 10:52 AM

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h1. FreeBSD driver for Atheros Wireless cards ath(4)
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h2. Ideas
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h3. How to hack EEPROM-less cards
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EEPROM data located in flash at well known address, it have signature so can be auto-detected by GEOM
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# Load EEPROM into firmware(9) subsystem, just after VM initialization done. Think sys/mips/atheros/apb.c is good place for such hack. 
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# Load it by special GEOM module into firmware(9), good only if ath(4) driver loaded as kld in userland.