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authorPavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>2005-12-30 18:22:26 -0500
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2006-01-16 16:51:53 -0500
commita485cde662f5b6b2299ee01a7e9e2c11683f807b (patch)
tree359f04714e13c7010fa0f63d6968211d658c3af7 /drivers/net/wireless/hostap/Kconfig
parentd834a41c966c6a20368fadb59248740935e6fbae (diff)
[PATCH] hostap: allow flashing firmware
Host AP driver has code to support writing firmware to non-volatile memory, a.k.a. flash. This code has been extensively tested when Host AP was a standalone driver. Add a configuration option to the kernel to allow enabling this functionality. Improve the description of the RAM download option. Mention cards that require it. Remove obsolete scary comment. Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless/hostap/Kconfig')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/hostap/Kconfig22
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/hostap/Kconfig b/drivers/net/wireless/hostap/Kconfig
index 56f41c714d38..c8f6286dd35f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/hostap/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/hostap/Kconfig
@@ -26,11 +26,25 @@ config HOSTAP_FIRMWARE
26 depends on HOSTAP 26 depends on HOSTAP
27 ---help--- 27 ---help---
28 Configure Host AP driver to include support for firmware image 28 Configure Host AP driver to include support for firmware image
29 download. Current version supports only downloading to volatile, i.e., 29 download. This option by itself only enables downloading to the
30 RAM memory. Flash upgrade is not yet supported. 30 volatile memory, i.e. the card RAM. This option is required to
31 support cards that don't have firmware in flash, such as D-Link
32 DWL-520 rev E and D-Link DWL-650 rev P.
31 33
32 Firmware image downloading needs user space tool, prism2_srec. It is 34 Firmware image downloading needs a user space tool, prism2_srec.
33 available from http://hostap.epitest.fi/. 35 It is available from http://hostap.epitest.fi/.
36
37config HOSTAP_FIRMWARE_NVRAM
38 bool "Support for non-volatile firmware download"
39 depends on HOSTAP_FIRMWARE
40 ---help---
41 Allow Host AP driver to write firmware images to the non-volatile
42 card memory, i.e. flash memory that survives power cycling.
43 Enable this option if you want to be able to change card firmware
44 permanently.
45
46 Firmware image downloading needs a user space tool, prism2_srec.
47 It is available from http://hostap.epitest.fi/.
34 48
35config HOSTAP_PLX 49config HOSTAP_PLX
36 tristate "Host AP driver for Prism2/2.5/3 in PLX9052 PCI adaptors" 50 tristate "Host AP driver for Prism2/2.5/3 in PLX9052 PCI adaptors"