On 2/4/07, Pavel Roskin <proski@xxxxxxx> wrote:
In fact, Atheros chips are not that intelligent to be treated as FullMAC, but going to d80211 removes many chip specific features.
What types of features are removed? For example Atheros turbo mode can be treated like another PHY layer implementation. If it is just off-loading the implementation of standard behavior then we may actually be better off ignoring this capability and implementing the standard behavior in the host. It's not even clear to me that doing encryption is a wireless co-processor is a win. It is almost certain that the host can perform the same algorithms many times faster that an embedded wireless processor. Moving encryption onto the host reduces the latency of the connection. -- Jon Smirl jonsmirl@xxxxxxxxx - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
