Subject: Re: Linux wireless 802.11n progress
From: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>
Cc: wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
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Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 14:27:12 -0500
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On Wed, 2007-11-14 at 13:58 -0500, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> * Marvel
> 
> All I have found is that they do have 802.11n solutions (TopDog):
> 
> http://www.marvell.com/products/wireless/topdog.jsp

If you are willing to sign an NDA, Marvell could probably send off the
documentation and samples for TopDog.  Linville has specs & hardware,
and even has a git tree, but obviously hasn't had time to look much
further into it.

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/linville/marvell.git;a=summary

My take: rewrite the driver from the ground up against mac80211.  Don't
use the vendor driver, but use it as a guide.

Dan