Return-path: Received: from mail-lb0-f174.google.com ([209.85.217.174]:38189 "EHLO mail-lb0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933255Ab2JLId1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Oct 2012 04:33:27 -0400 Received: by mail-lb0-f174.google.com with SMTP id n3so1905892lbo.19 for ; Fri, 12 Oct 2012 01:33:25 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5077D5D2.6020302@gmail.com> (sfid-20121012_103333_242216_5E7D9423) Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 10:33:22 +0200 From: Pontus Fuchs MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Julian Calaby CC: Greg KH , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, hch@lst.de, s.L-H@gmx.de, linville@tuxdriver.com, "Luis R. Rodriguez" , Sujith Manoharan , Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan , achadd@qca.qualcomm.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Driver for the ar5523 chipset References: <1349985702-21322-1-git-send-email-pontus.fuchs@gmail.com> <20121011203112.GB3317@kroah.com> <5077BE43.7050200@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 2012-10-12 10:23, Julian Calaby wrote: > Hi Pontus, > > On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 5:52 PM, Pontus Fuchs wrote: >> * The FW API is reverse engineered and no real documentation is available. > > Have you asked the Atheros guys (mostly CC'd) if there's any > possibility of the documentation / firmware being released? > Yes I have. Adrian promised to see what could be done regarding docs. The FW blob is already released under a good license. I guess the best thing would be if Adrian or Luis could submit the fw to linux-firmware but lets deal with that when/if the driver gets merged. Cheers, Pontus