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Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 13:30:25 -0800
From: John Daiker <daikerjohn@gmail.com>
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To: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
CC: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH,RFC] initial mwl8k driver for marvell topdog wireless
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On 01/08/2009 09:23 AM, 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!
>>      
>
> Would you guys mind if we split this up into an mwl8k core, and separate
> mwl8335 and mwl8687 modules?  In starting to add at least firmware
> upload for the 8335 last night, I realized that  most of the 8687
> hardware access code won't work, because it's using DMA for passing the
> firmware image to the card, while the 8335 uses many small writes to the
> registers.  So I'd like to refactor the driver into those 3 distinct
> modules instead.  Eventually there will probably be 8361 and 8362
> modules as well once the TopDog N parts get added.
>
> Sound OK?  I'm working locally with git, but if I go too far it'll be a
> ton of work to merge any changes you have.  Can we put this in a git
> tree somewhere and all work from that while we wait for a merge?
>
> Dan
>    
Has any of this landed in a git repo yet?  I have an 8335 chip and would 
love to help with testing, but need a place to find bits, first.

Thanks,
John Daiker