Re: Announcement: open source AR9380 and later HAL

[Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@gmail.com>]

On Fri Mar 15 02:10:50 2013, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just realised I forgot to announce this here!
>
> I've been working on open sourcing the QCA 10.x mainline AR9380 HAL.
> It's passed legal approval (well, last week!) and you can now find it
> online:
>
> https://github.com/qca/qcamain_open_hal_public
>
> Now, the 30 second FAQ:
>
> * It's from Nov 27, 2012 - which means there are a few things that
> have changed since then - so don't use it as an authoritative
> reference compared to ath9k without doing much more digging! ;
> * It's missing certain things - including but not limited to
> EEPROM/OTP write, TX beamforming, spectral scan (but this will change
> later), fast channel change, various calibration and debug modes which
> are used for manufacturing;
> * It (mostly) compiles and runs as-is, if you're a FreeBSD user and
> have a HAL framework to compile it against.
>
> I've done this so open source developers can see a known good and
> working version of the chipset support for the AR9380 and later.
>
> If you check out my personal git fork:
>
> https://github.com/erikarn/qcamain_open_hal_public
>
> You'll see that I have a branch (local/freebsd) which contains the
> (mostly mechanical!) changes to FreeBSD in order to use it. And yes,
> this branch does compile and run in FreeBSD, giving me AR9380 and
> later chipset support.
>
> I have an update underway to bring it up to the latest code (well, as
> of March 13, 2013) and I'll send out another announcement once that's
> done.
>
> I'll also work with legal and engineering teams to get further
> features opened up.
>
> Thanks and enjoy!
>
>
>
> Adrian
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Thanks a lot Adrian !
Keep it up :-)