ar9271 mailing list and driver project page

ar9271 mailing list and driver project page

[Luis R. Rodriguez]

I'd like to announce the ar9271 development project will make use of
the Linux driver project mailing list as it is not upstream yet.
ar9271 development now also has a home page:

http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ar9271

You can subscribe to this page for updates. I've tried to do a big
brain dump on documentation from what I understand of ar9271
HTC/HIF/WMI stuff so far. If you'd like to get followups on ar9271 I
suggest you either subscribe to the wiki page or subscribe to the
Linux driver development mailing list as no patches or information
will be posted to linux-wireless until it is ready for upstream
inclusion.

  Luis

Re: ar9271 mailing list and driver project page

[Holger Schurig]

> ar9271 and ar9170 seem to share a few things, one of which is
> firmware upload. ar9271's firmware upload routine was modified
> to make it match ar9170's as much as possible to share it on
> ath.ko

Is it true that most devices which will use ath.ko won't ever use 
firmware uploading?  It's only a few Ath-USB devices, so maybe 
you could do an ath_fw.ko for this.

(Somebody who's always working with embedded devices and likes to 
keeps small :-)

-- 
http://www.holgerschurig.de

Re: ar9271 mailing list and driver project page

[Luis R. Rodriguez]

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 12:34 AM, Holger
Schurig<hs4233@mail.mn-solutions.de> wrote:
>> ar9271 and ar9170 seem to share a few things, one of which is
>> firmware upload. ar9271's firmware upload routine was modified
>> to make it match ar9170's as much as possible to share it on
>> ath.ko
>
> Is it true that most devices which will use ath.ko won't ever use
> firmware uploading?

For now only usb devices require firmware loading, but so does ar6k,
however I am not sure how fw upload works there so I cannot be certain
the way to upload fw will be the same as with ar9170 and ar9271.

> It's only a few Ath-USB devices, so maybe
> you could do an ath_fw.ko for this.

True, or ath_usb, or something, only thing is it might be overkill to
just have 1 fw upload routine on a module for sharing.

> (Somebody who's always working with embedded devices and likes to
> keeps small :-)

Hey thanks :)

  Luis