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
> 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 :-)
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On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 12:34 AM, Holger
Schurig<[email protected]> 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