Re: Broadcom 43xx first results

[Luc Saillard <luc@saillard.org>]

On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 04:26:50AM -0500, Kyle Moffett wrote:
> On Dec 05, 2005, at 15:42, Jiri Benc wrote:
> >On Mon, 5 Dec 2005 21:23:42 +0100, Michael Buesch wrote:
> >>This is __not__ "yet another stack". It is an _extension_.  It is  
> >>all about management frames, which the in-kernel code does not  
> >>manage.
> >
> >But this code should be part of the stack, as nearly every driver  
> >needs it.
> 
> WRONG.  More than half the currently Linux-compatible wireless cards  
> handle the wireless management packets in hardware, such that they're  
> little more complicated than a basic ethernet device with a channel,  
> an ESSID, and a list of MACs/APs.
> 
 
I do not want to enter in this flamewar, but the current driver i'm working
on (marvell libertas chipset) need management frames in software. But to
reduce cost, i think that lower chipset try to put the most in the host and
not in the chipset. Marvell build the chipset around a ARM cpu so i think one
day i can do it in hardware but for now i need to choose a ieee802.11 stack.
I've began to used the in kernel solution with my own functions to
send and received this frame. But i hope we will find a technical solution
that please everyone. I'll try to see if the softmac layer written for
broadcom driver can be used for my project.

Luc