Return-path: Received: from sapphire.tuxdriver.com ([70.61.120.61]:51931 "EHLO Linville-X1.hq.tuxdriver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750923Ab3CKOQj (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Mar 2013 10:16:39 -0400 Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 09:44:14 -0400 From: "John W. Linville" To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Cc: Adrian Chadd , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, ath9k-devel , ath9k_htc_fw@lists.infradead.org, Chris Zankel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Marc Gauthier , lwn@lwn.net Subject: Re: [Announce] open ath9k_htc firmware Message-ID: <20130311134414.GA13275@tuxdriver.com> (sfid-20130311_151657_865666_9A7014BE) References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Awesome news! Many thanks to Adrian, Luis, and all the others they have credited with helping this along! John On Fri, Mar 08, 2013 at 03:46:38PM -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > Many thanks to Adrian for his hard work on all this and to everyone > else who volunteered to help make this happen, including the > understanding by our management at QCA and even Tensilica requires > some handsome applause for their commitment, understanding on letting > us get this out. We now have a public mailing list for development: > > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/ath9k_htc_fw > > Full steam ahead! > > Luis > > On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 3:32 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I hate fanfare. > > > > You can all thank Luis Rodriguez for his ridiculously long and hard > > fighting to get this stuff pushed through the grinder to make this > > happen. > > > > There's also been a hard working team of developers behind the scene - > > Felix Fietkau, Eugene Krasnikov, Sujith Manoharan, and the team from > > Cozybit. They've been working hard to get the codebase converted over > > to using the open source tensilica toolchain and finding/fixing up any > > silly issues that may creep up from that. > > > > I've just been involved in shepharding this stuff into a sensible > > shape and pushing it through the final stage (legal review) before > > publication. > > > > You can find it here: > > > > https://github.com/qca/open-ath9k-htc-firmware > > > > There's a bunch of sorely needed work to do in the short term: > > > > * felix has a replacement cmake build system that I'd like to now integrate; > > * there's lots of build warnings which need to be removed (and then > > build this thing using -Wall -Werror); > > * some general code cleanup and documentation wouldn't be rejected - > > but I don't really want any sweeping code changes to go in until we've > > tidied up the build warnings and validated that the image(s) work > > right. > > > > I plan on doing some test builds shortly. I plan on bumping the > > firmware to 1.4 once felix's cmake system is in place and people have > > validated that this work.s > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > > > Adrian > > -- > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in > > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > -- John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you linville@tuxdriver.com might be all we have. Be ready.