From: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
To: "Andrés García Saavedra" <andres.garcia.saavedra@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: wl1251 and NoA protocol
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 15:10:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1320066608.2672.15.camel@cumari> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADxqDgEvsObWbnPTViPF5g_TOS2WRJoJK4OnEzehbdQwwgzNDQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, 2011-10-18 at 11:13 +0200, Andrés García Saavedra wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I would like to test Notice of Absence powersaving protocol for
> 802.11abg WLANs on some current android smartphone. My question is
> regarding the wl1251 driver implementation for TI chipsets:
>
> * Does the chipset/current implementation support sleep/awake
> triggers? (or at least quiet elements?) -> This means, can I command
> the NIC to stay quiet (slept) for certain duration of time?
>
> My plan is to implement/test a Notice of Absence protocol where the
> driver would trigger absent (quiet/sleep) periods according to the
> beacon's NoA IE. Ive seen in the code the wl1251_ps_elp_sleep/wakeup
> functions that might be reused for this purpose (?)
>
> * Last (lazy) question. AFAIK only the google dev 1 phone uses this
> chipset. Is there any 1ghz android device that could benefit of this
> driver?
You should look for a device with some newer chip, like the wl1271, for
instance. We are currently developing the wl12xx driver (for wl127x and
wl128x) a lot more actively than wl1251. Besides, I don't think there's
any newer Android phone using wl1251...
--
Cheers,
Luca.
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2011-10-18 9:13 wl1251 and NoA protocol Andrés García Saavedra
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