Release of Atheros 802.11abg HAL under the ISC

Release of Atheros 802.11abg HAL under the ISC

[Luis R. Rodriguez]

As part of our commitment to help support all of our Atheros devices
under Linux we'd like to announce the release of our Atheros HAL for
our 802.11abg chipsets under the ISC license.

You can find it here:

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mcgrof/legacy-hal.tar.bz2

This can be used as a source of documentation to help ath5k move
forward to support our 802.11abg chipsets as best as possible in
the Linux kernel. We look forward to keep working strongly with the
community on advancing support of all our Atheros chipsets under Linux.

  Luis

Re: Release of Atheros 802.11abg HAL under the ISC

[Nick Kossifidis]

2008/9/27 Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>:
> As part of our commitment to help support all of our Atheros devices
> under Linux we'd like to announce the release of our Atheros HAL for
> our 802.11abg chipsets under the ISC license.
>
> You can find it here:
>
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mcgrof/legacy-hal.tar.bz2
>
> This can be used as a source of documentation to help ath5k move
> forward to support our 802.11abg chipsets as best as possible in
> the Linux kernel. We look forward to keep working strongly with the
> community on advancing support of all our Atheros chipsets under Linux.
>
>  Luis

Thanks a lot for this !!!

Can't wait to get my hands dirty ;-)

I 'll start merging stuff on ath5k asap !!!


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Re: Release of Atheros 802.11abg HAL under the ISC

[Michael Buesch]

On Friday 26 September 2008 23:57:01 Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> As part of our commitment to help support all of our Atheros devices
> under Linux we'd like to announce the release of our Atheros HAL for
> our 802.11abg chipsets under the ISC license.
> 
> You can find it here:
> 
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mcgrof/legacy-hal.tar.bz2
> 
> This can be used as a source of documentation to help ath5k move
> forward to support our 802.11abg chipsets as best as possible in
> the Linux kernel. We look forward to keep working strongly with the
> community on advancing support of all our Atheros chipsets under Linux.

Great news. Thanks a lot for your amazing work at atheros, Luis!

I hope that other companies *cough* reconsider moving towards this
direction, too.

-- 
Greetings Michael.

Re: Release of Atheros 802.11abg HAL under the ISC

[Greg KH]

On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 02:57:01PM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> As part of our commitment to help support all of our Atheros devices
> under Linux we'd like to announce the release of our Atheros HAL for
> our 802.11abg chipsets under the ISC license.
> 
> You can find it here:
> 
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mcgrof/legacy-hal.tar.bz2
> 
> This can be used as a source of documentation to help ath5k move
> forward to support our 802.11abg chipsets as best as possible in
> the Linux kernel. We look forward to keep working strongly with the
> community on advancing support of all our Atheros chipsets under Linux.

Wonderful, thanks a lot for making this happen!

greg k-h

Re: Release of Atheros 802.11abg HAL under the ISC

[Maxim Levitsky]

Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> As part of our commitment to help support all of our Atheros devices
> under Linux we'd like to announce the release of our Atheros HAL for
> our 802.11abg chipsets under the ISC license.
> 
> You can find it here:
> 
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mcgrof/legacy-hal.tar.bz2
> 
> This can be used as a source of documentation to help ath5k move
> forward to support our 802.11abg chipsets as best as possible in
> the Linux kernel. We look forward to keep working strongly with the
> community on advancing support of all our Atheros chipsets under Linux.

If I understand this correctly, madwifi is no longer a non-free driver?

Regards,
	Maxim Levitsky

Re: Release of Atheros 802.11abg HAL under the ISC

[Luis R. Rodriguez]

On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 03:55:58PM -0700, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> If I understand this correctly, madwifi is no longer a non-free driver?

MadWifi is based on a proprietary HAL which is slightly different
than this one, so no, its still non-free. The "free" drivers where
I think focus should be put in is ath5k and ath9k as they are now both
merged as part of the Linux kernel.

  Luis

Re: Release of Atheros 802.11abg HAL under the ISC

[Sam Leffler]

Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 03:55:58PM -0700, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
>   
>> If I understand this correctly, madwifi is no longer a non-free driver?
>>     
>
> MadWifi is based on a proprietary HAL which is slightly different
> than this one, so no, its still non-free. The "free" drivers where
> I think focus should be put in is ath5k and ath9k as they are now both
> merged as part of the Linux kernel.
>   

The hal is not proprietary; Atheros just won't allow me to release it.  
And there are significant differences between the two code bases.

    Sam

Re: Release of Atheros 802.11abg HAL under the ISC

[Bruno Randolf]

Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:

> As part of our commitment to help support all of our Atheros devices
> under Linux we'd like to announce the release of our Atheros HAL for
> our 802.11abg chipsets under the ISC license.
> 
> You can find it here:
> 
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mcgrof/legacy-hal.tar.bz2
> 
> This can be used as a source of documentation to help ath5k move
> forward to support our 802.11abg chipsets as best as possible in
> the Linux kernel. We look forward to keep working strongly with the
> community on advancing support of all our Atheros chipsets under Linux.

yeah! :)

thats what we have been waiting for since years!
great work, luis!

bruno

Re: Release of Atheros 802.11abg HAL under the ISC

[H. Peter Anvin]

Sam Leffler wrote:
>>
>> MadWifi is based on a proprietary HAL which is slightly different
>> than this one, so no, its still non-free. The "free" drivers where
>> I think focus should be put in is ath5k and ath9k as they are now both
>> merged as part of the Linux kernel.
>>   
> 
> The hal is not proprietary; Atheros just won't allow me to release it.  
> And there are significant differences between the two code bases.
> 

Perhaps you and Luis can work together on fixing that problem?

And Luis, congratulations on your work so far.  It has really paid off.

	-hpa

Re: Release of Atheros 802.11abg HAL under the ISC

[Jiri Slaby]

On 09/26/2008 11:57 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> As part of our commitment to help support all of our Atheros devices
> under Linux we'd like to announce the release of our Atheros HAL for
> our 802.11abg chipsets under the ISC license.
> 
> You can find it here:
> 
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mcgrof/legacy-hal.tar.bz2
> 
> This can be used as a source of documentation to help ath5k move
> forward to support our 802.11abg chipsets as best as possible in
> the Linux kernel. We look forward to keep working strongly with the
> community on advancing support of all our Atheros chipsets under Linux.

GREAT!

Re: [ath5k-devel] Release of Atheros 802.11abg HAL under the ISC

[Bob Copeland]

On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 02:57:01PM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> As part of our commitment to help support all of our Atheros devices
> under Linux we'd like to announce the release of our Atheros HAL for
> our 802.11abg chipsets under the ISC license.
> 
> You can find it here:
> 
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mcgrof/legacy-hal.tar.bz2

Awesome news!!  Thank you Luis and Atheros!

-- 
Bob Copeland %% www.bobcopeland.com

Re: Release of Atheros 802.11abg HAL under the ISC

[John W. Linville]

On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 02:57:01PM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> As part of our commitment to help support all of our Atheros devices
> under Linux we'd like to announce the release of our Atheros HAL for
> our 802.11abg chipsets under the ISC license.
> 
> You can find it here:
> 
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mcgrof/legacy-hal.tar.bz2
> 
> This can be used as a source of documentation to help ath5k move
> forward to support our 802.11abg chipsets as best as possible in
> the Linux kernel. We look forward to keep working strongly with the
> community on advancing support of all our Atheros chipsets under Linux.

Awesome...simply, awesome!

I hereby nominate Atheros for this year's "Most Improved Open Source
Corporate Citizen" award! :-)

Great job, Luis!

John
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linville@tuxdriver.com			of your literate lifestyle.

Re: Release of Atheros 802.11abg HAL under the ISC

[Tim Gardner]

John W. Linville wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 02:57:01PM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>> As part of our commitment to help support all of our Atheros devices
>> under Linux we'd like to announce the release of our Atheros HAL for
>> our 802.11abg chipsets under the ISC license.
>>
>> You can find it here:
>>
>> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mcgrof/legacy-hal.tar.bz2
>>
>> This can be used as a source of documentation to help ath5k move
>> forward to support our 802.11abg chipsets as best as possible in
>> the Linux kernel. We look forward to keep working strongly with the
>> community on advancing support of all our Atheros chipsets under Linux.
> 
> Awesome...simply, awesome!
> 
> I hereby nominate Atheros for this year's "Most Improved Open Source
> Corporate Citizen" award! :-)
> 
> Great job, Luis!
> 
> John

Luis _has_ done a great job. Having dealt with Atheros in another life,
I can appreciate the mountains he's moved.

I would also offer my appreciation to those unnamed, enlightened
individuals within Atheros that made this possible. Nothing would please
me more then to be able to drop the madwifi HAL in favor of full support
from ath5k.

rtg
-- 
Tim Gardner tim.gardner@canonical.com

Re: Release of Atheros 802.11abg HAL under the ISC

[Glenn Saberton]

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Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> As part of our commitment to help support all of our Atheros devices
> under Linux we'd like to announce the release of our Atheros HAL for
> our 802.11abg chipsets under the ISC license.
> 
> You can find it here:
> 
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mcgrof/legacy-hal.tar.bz2
> 
> This can be used as a source of documentation to help ath5k move
> forward to support our 802.11abg chipsets as best as possible in
> the Linux kernel. We look forward to keep working strongly with the
> community on advancing support of all our Atheros chipsets under Linux.
> 
>   Luis
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Great!

Why is #ath9k invite only?
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Re: [ath5k-devel] Release of Atheros 802.11abg HAL under the ISC

[Derek Smithies]

Luis,
On Fri, 26 Sep 2008, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:

> As part of our commitment to help support all of our Atheros devices
> under Linux we'd like to announce the release of our Atheros HAL for
> our 802.11abg chipsets under the ISC license.
>
> You can find it here:
>
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mcgrof/legacy-hal.tar.bz2
>
> This can be used as a source of documentation to help ath5k move
> forward to support our 802.11abg chipsets as best as possible in
> the Linux kernel. We look forward to keep working strongly with the
> community on advancing support of all our Atheros chipsets under Linux.
>
>  Luis

A huge vote of thanks and congratulations are due to Atheros for 
taking the step of releasing the HAL. There will be many in the open 
source community celebrating this move.

Much Kudos is due to Atheros for taking this step.

The ath5k community is going to benefit hugely from being able to optimise 
the driver based on a more accurate knowledge of the workings of the HAL.

Patches like
https://lists.ath5k.org/pipermail/ath5k-devel/2008-September/001311.html
will improve the reliability, and are only possible because of the release
of the HAL.

Thanks are due to Luis also, for taking his part in getting the HAL 
released.

Perhaps we can all now work together on getting a stable driver for 
Atheros cards under Linux. - Ath5k or Ath9k (don't care which).

Derek.
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Re: Release of Atheros 802.11abg HAL under the ISC

[Michael Renzmann]

Hi.

Glenn Saberton wrote:
> Why is #ath9k invite only?

It's not particularly on-topic here, so just a short note: #ath9k should
not be invite-only (but I will check again). It forwards to #madwifi,
which is used for discussion about MadWifi, ath5k and ath9k.

Bye, Mike

Re: Release of Atheros 802.11abg HAL under the ISC

[JUN]

Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@...> writes:

> 
> As part of our commitment to help support all of our Atheros devices
> under Linux we'd like to announce the release of our Atheros HAL for
> our 802.11abg chipsets under the ISC license.
> 
> You can find it here:
> 
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mcgrof/legacy-hal.tar.bz2
> 
> This can be used as a source of documentation to help ath5k move
> forward to support our 802.11abg chipsets as best as possible in
> the Linux kernel. We look forward to keep working strongly with the
> community on advancing support of all our Atheros chipsets under Linux.
> 
>   Luis
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> 
> 

Thanks for your great job

would you tell me which version of the madwifi you tested
with the HAL source, and work? I've tried with madwifi-0.9.3.1 and simply
replaced the xscale-be-elf.hal.o.uu with the new one. 
madwifi-0.9.3.1 use HAL 0.9.18 by default, and the HAL from 
your source is 0.9.17.1.

Re: Release of Atheros 802.11abg HAL under the ISC

[Johannes Berg]

JUN wrote:
> would you tell me which version of the madwifi you tested
> with the HAL source, and work? I've tried with madwifi-0.9.3.1 and simply
> replaced the xscale-be-elf.hal.o.uu with the new one.
> madwifi-0.9.3.1 use HAL 0.9.18 by default, and the HAL from
> your source is 0.9.17.1.

this code isn't meant to be used, with madwifi or otherwise, other than
for improving ath5k, so what you're asking isn't a sensible question.

johannes

Re: Release of Atheros 802.11abg HAL under the ISC

[Nick Kossifidis]

2008/10/24 JUN <eeuix@yahoo.com>:
> and the HAL from
> your source is 0.9.17.1.
>

It's much better (notice AR2425 etc support), they just haven't
updated the version string.


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