On Fri Mar 15 02:10:50 2013, Adrian Chadd wrote: > Hi, > > I just realised I forgot to announce this here! > > I've been working on open sourcing the QCA 10.x mainline AR9380 HAL. > It's passed legal approval (well, last week!) and you can now find it > online: > > https://github.com/qca/qcamain_open_hal_public > > Now, the 30 second FAQ: > > * It's from Nov 27, 2012 - which means there are a few things that > have changed since then - so don't use it as an authoritative > reference compared to ath9k without doing much more digging! ; > * It's missing certain things - including but not limited to > EEPROM/OTP write, TX beamforming, spectral scan (but this will change > later), fast channel change, various calibration and debug modes which > are used for manufacturing; > * It (mostly) compiles and runs as-is, if you're a FreeBSD user and > have a HAL framework to compile it against. > > I've done this so open source developers can see a known good and > working version of the chipset support for the AR9380 and later. > > If you check out my personal git fork: > > https://github.com/erikarn/qcamain_open_hal_public > > You'll see that I have a branch (local/freebsd) which contains the > (mostly mechanical!) changes to FreeBSD in order to use it. And yes, > this branch does compile and run in FreeBSD, giving me AR9380 and > later chipset support. > > I have an update underway to bring it up to the latest code (well, as > of March 13, 2013) and I'll send out another announcement once that's > done. > > I'll also work with legal and engineering teams to get further > features opened up. > > Thanks and enjoy! > > > > Adrian > -- > 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 Thanks a lot Adrian ! Keep it up :-) -- 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
