From: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
To: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, luciano.coelho@nokia.com
Subject: Re: wl12xx: driver for TI wl1251 chipset
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 10:21:19 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1234279279.3119.12.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87iqnishuj.fsf@nokia.com>
On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 12:32 +0200, Kalle Valo wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> in Nokia we have been working on a mac80211 driver for TI wl1251
> chipset. We named it as wl12xx, and in the future we are planning to
> add wl1271 support to the driver as well.
>
> wl1251 is a chipset for embedded devices, supporting both SDIO and SPI
> busses. Currently the driver supports only SPI. Adding support 1253
> (the 5 GHz version) should be relatively easy. More information here:
>
> http://focus.ti.com/general/docs/wtbu/wtbuproductcontent.tsp?contentId=4711&navigationId=12494&templateId=6123
>
> Because the patch is over 200 KB, the driver is temporarily available
> from my server:
>
> http://www.valot.fi/kalle/tmp/wl12xx/wl12xx-2.6.28-1.patch
>
> The patch is against linux-2.6.28-omap1 tag available here:
>
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/tmlind/linux-omap-2.6.git;a=commit;h=0ec95b96fd77036a13398c66901e11cd301190d0
>
> Currently known issues:
>
> o short slot and preamble support missing
> o rts/cts and cts-to-self missing
> o no proper bitrate control support
> o using deprecated omap_get_config(), need to convert to use platform_data
> o firmware wakeup not working, deepest sleep state in firmware not yet
> enabled
>
> Also the driver has a netlink interface which is used for running
> production line tests and pushing the calibration data from user
> space.
When is the calibration data required, and is it likely to change at
runtime? What I really mean is, if the calibration data isn't required
to change while the interface is up, maybe use request_firmware() and
load it at device open time or something?
Dan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-10 15:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-10 10:32 wl12xx: driver for TI wl1251 chipset Kalle Valo
2009-02-10 15:21 ` Dan Williams [this message]
2009-02-10 16:23 ` Kalle Valo
2009-02-10 16:25 ` Dan Williams
2009-02-10 17:18 ` Kalle Valo
2009-02-19 9:19 ` Kalle Valo
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