Re: [PATCH,RFC] initial mwl8k driver for marvell topdog wireless

["John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>]

On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 11:10:06AM -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 03:55 +0100, Lennert Buytenhek wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Attached is an initial version of the mwl8k driver for Marvell 88w8xxx
> > PCI/PCIe wireless parts (against 2.6.27.1).  This version was written
> > and tested against the 88w8687 (802.11b/g), but it shouldn't be hard to
> > extend the support to other parts in the 8xxx series, since the firmware
> > interface is very similar between parts.
> > 
> > There's an occasional timeout warning with mwl8k_stop(), and hardware
> > crypto is still a work-in-progress, but other than that it looks pretty
> > stable.
> > 
> > Feedback appreciated!
> 
> Oooh, thanks for the Christmas present.  Just in time for the holidays.
> Is there a git repo somewhere that we could all base off of, so we don't
> have to deal with patches to patches to patches until it gets into
> wireless-testing?

I wouldn't worry too much about that.  The better questions is where
do we get firmware?

John
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