Re: Getting Started

["Nick Kossifidis" <mickflemm@gmail.com>]

2008/2/7, Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>:
> On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 11:09 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 17:04 +0200, Nick Kossifidis wrote:
> > > > For example, the openmoko people are writing a mac80211 driver
> > > > for ar6k. Not every driver is already in the wireless-2.6 git
> > > > tree.
> > >
> > > [OT]
> > >
> > > As far as i know Atheros released a GPLed driver along with their SDIO stack.
> > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/sdio-linux/
> > >
> > > Do you have a plan to include this in kernel ? What's the status ?
> >
> > 2.6.24 already has an SDIO stack; hence the Atheros one is redundant.
> > The openmoko people already have a port of their ar6k driver to the
> > in-kernel SDIO stack.
>
> Which of course means that one big barrier to including the ar6k driver
> is already removed.  You can browse the ar6k openmoko code at:
>
> http://svn.openmoko.org/developers/sameo/patches/ar6k-ng/
>
> Dan
>
>

Great news !

Thnx for the info ;-)

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