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Oleksandr Rybalko, 03/03/2012 10:52 AM
| 1 | 1 | Oleksandr Rybalko | h1. FreeBSD driver for Atheros Wireless cards ath(4) |
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| 3 | 1 | Oleksandr Rybalko | h2. Ideas |
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| 5 | 1 | Oleksandr Rybalko | h3. How to hack EEPROM-less cards |
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| 7 | 1 | Oleksandr Rybalko | EEPROM data located in flash at well known address, it have signature so can be auto-detected by GEOM |
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| 9 | 1 | Oleksandr Rybalko | # Load EEPROM into firmware(9) subsystem, just after VM initialization done. Think sys/mips/atheros/apb.c is good place for such hack. |
| 10 | 1 | Oleksandr Rybalko | # Load it by special GEOM module into firmware(9), good only if ath(4) driver loaded as kld in userland. |