Subject: Re: [PATCH,RFC] initial mwl8k driver for marvell topdog wireless
From: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
To: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
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Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 12:37:21 -0500
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On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 11:16 -0500, John W. Linville wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 11:10:06AM -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 03:55 +0100, Lennert Buytenhek wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > Attached is an initial version of the mwl8k driver for Marvell 88w8xxx
> > > PCI/PCIe wireless parts (against 2.6.27.1).  This version was written
> > > and tested against the 88w8687 (802.11b/g), but it shouldn't be hard to
> > > extend the support to other parts in the 8xxx series, since the firmware
> > > interface is very similar between parts.
> > > 
> > > There's an occasional timeout warning with mwl8k_stop(), and hardware
> > > crypto is still a work-in-progress, but other than that it looks pretty
> > > stable.
> > > 
> > > Feedback appreciated!
> > 
> > Oooh, thanks for the Christmas present.  Just in time for the holidays.
> > Is there a git repo somewhere that we could all base off of, so we don't
> > have to deal with patches to patches to patches until it gets into
> > wireless-testing?
> 
> I wouldn't worry too much about that.  The better questions is where
> do we get firmware?

I believe I can post it.  Marvell recently changed the license terms on
at least some of their firmware to be comparable to other freely
available firmware (like Intel's).  Unfortunately you must have an
extranet account to get it (they are working on fixing this too) but
once you have it, the firmware blobs themselves are under a nice
license.  I'll try to get something together today.

Dan