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- This is a set of tools for debugging the b43 driver and/or firmware.
- Note that it is licensed under the GNU GPL version 3 ONLY!
- Installing:
- Run the install.py script as root.
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- * b43-fwdump *
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- b43-fwdump is an utility for dumping the current status of the device firmware
- on a running device. It has some auto-detection mechanisms. So if you have
- only one card in the machine, it will dump the firmware state of that card, if
- called without any parameters.
- Use the --shm option, if you want a Shared Memory dump.
- Use the --binary option, if you want b43-fwdump to automatically dump the
- disassembled code at the current PC. This is convenient for debugging
- firmware crashes.
- Note that b43-fwdump _must_ be run as root, as it needs direct access to the
- hardware through debugfs.
- Debugfs must be mounted and you must have a recent driver with support for raw
- hardware access through debugfs.
- If you get error messages about missing debugfs files, make sure to upgrade to
- the latest development snapshot of the b43 driver.
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- * b43-beautifier *
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- b43-beautifier is a tool to replace constant expressions in raw disassembled
- firmware code with human-readable #defined names.
- The tool requires either the disassembled source code or a binary (which it
- will disassemble then) to start with. See the --asmfile and --binfile
- parameters.
- It also requires a path to the directory containing the hardware definitions.
- This is the "common" subdirectory found in the b43-ucode GIT repository.
- See the --defs parameter.
- Please be careful when using these tools. Some of them have direct access to
- the hardware, so you can easily crash something.
- Michael
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