Hello, Some time ago, a colleague of mine, Luciano Coelho, opened a discussion with this same subject. I think it is time now for me to continue that discussion, because our aim, like that of Intel's, is to achieve a unified WiMAX driver interface for Linux. For reference, the original posting is archived in http://linuxwimax.org/pipermail/wimax/2008-June/000028.html. As Luca explains in his e-mail, the Nokia architechture is different from the approach taken by Intel. - The Nokia architechture places the device independent WiMAX interface at the kernel/user-space barrier, so that all user-space components are independent of the WiMAX device. - The Intel architechture places the device independent WiMAX interface on top of a user-space library, so that in the kernel/user-space barrier, essentially, chipset specific messages are exchanged. In the original posting, Luciano stated that the Nokia driver sources are not publicized yet. This has now changed. For reference, please see the Maemo.org repository at http://repository.maemo.org/pool/maemo4.1/free/k/kernel-source-diablo/ The Nokia driver currently implements the WiMAX methods as private extensions to the WLAN wireless events interface. Obviously, for a long term solution fixed messages would need to be defined. Still, the methods defined in the interface have been proven to work on a real product, and could serve as good reference defining a device independent WiMAX driver interface for Linux. It is my personal feeling that the Nokia approach is closer to what is intended by the driver model in operating systems, such as Linux. Juuso Oikarinen -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.moblin.org/pipermail/wimax/attachments/20081202/6541db88/attachment.html
