Return-path: Received: from 80-190-117-144.ip-home.de ([80.190.117.144]:34724 "EHLO bu3sch.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753096Ab0JJMfB (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Oct 2010 08:35:01 -0400 Subject: Re: Release of Maranello firmware source code for Broadcom cards From: Michael =?ISO-8859-1?Q?B=FCsch?= To: francesco.gringoli@ing.unibs.it Cc: linux-wireless , b43-dev@lists.infradead.org, Bo Han In-Reply-To: <1DBB75B1-733F-4DFC-A541-2C2C986586A6@ing.unibs.it> (sfid-20101010_123116_260431_6CAA2A46) References: <2518B44B-D014-4ABA-AE31-BD75691488AB@ing.unibs.it> <1DBB75B1-733F-4DFC-A541-2C2C986586A6@ing.unibs.it> (sfid-20101010_123116_260431_6CAA2A46) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2010 14:34:56 +0200 Message-ID: <1286714096.16309.10.camel@maggie> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sun, 2010-10-10 at 12:19 +0200, francesco.gringoli@ing.unibs.it wrote: > Maranello is an enhancement of the 802.11 DCF standard: it implements > a Partial Packet Recovery technique to retransmit only the corrupt > parts of failed packets. This reduces the airtime and contributes to > enhance the throughput. It was written starting from OpenFWWF5.2 by > adding a number of new features. Hey, that looks really cool. :) So does this firmware work in AP and STA mode? I guess so, because it seems you need support for the nonstandard enhancement on both STA and AP. -- Greetings Michael.