on-board, glued to the AR71xx CPU. These may forgo separate WMAC EEPROMs
(which store configuration and calibration data) and instead store
it in the main board SPI flash.
Normally the NIC reads the EEPROM attached to it to setup various PCI
configuration registers. If this isn't done, the device will probe as
something different (eg 0x168c:abcd, or 0x168c:ff??.) Other setup registers
are also written to which may control important functions.
This introduces a new compile option, AR71XX_ATH_EEPROM, which enables the
use of this particular code. The ART offset in the SPI flash can be
specified as a hint against the relevant slot/device number, for example:
hint.pcib.0.bus.0.17.0.ath_fixup_addr=0x1fff1000
hint.pcib.0.bus.0.18.0.ath_fixup_addr=0x1fff5000
TODO:
* Think of a better name;
* Make the PCIe version of this fixup code also use this option;
* Maybe also check slot 19;
* This has to happen _before_ the SPI flash is set from memory-mapped
to SPI-IO - so document that somewhere.
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