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The firmware is read from disk as a little-endian byte string. The code that loads the firmware into the device transfers it as 4-byte quantities. The routines that write multi-byte quantities on BE hardware assume that the data are in CPU order, and automatically do the conversion to the LE order required by the device. As a result, the firmware is transmitted incorrectly. Rather than do multiple byte swaps on the data, the download routine is revised to transmit bytes rather than dwords. Although the number of I/O operations is increased, the firmware is not often loaded. All drivers have the same bug, and use essentially the same code to download firmware. These routines have been moved into rtlwifi. Some CamelCase variables have been renamed. Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Cc: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.