On Monday 14 April 2008 11:12:38 claud_yu wrote: > Hi , > > Currently I use wi2wi W2SW0001, I send Murata module > back. I still try to port the libertas driver to mx31. > Wi2Wi provide a SD card development card on wi2wi > website. I also try another 88w8686 driver from > project moblin (http://www.moblin.org/). The driver > should based on marvell SDIO driver. But the driver > still have some problem while firmware download. Okay, I find a kernel tree there which, in debian/patches/0019-marvell_8686_8688.patch contains another libertas driver. Unfortunately, the (Intel created) moblin.org webpage only supports the "http://"; access protocol to the git tree, which is rather inefficent. I'm currently trying to get this tree with "git clone --reference /usr/src/linux-git http://www.moblin.org/repos/projects/kernel-mid-2.6.24.git/";, and takes ages. Maybe they also made this tree from scratch, so that the reference to Linus' git tree won't help the downloading. Okay, to the driver: * it's GPL, so we can copy from it * it's an if_sdio.c only-driver (and also contains something with bluetooth stuff) * it's weird, as this patch contains two wlan_11.c files which differ. This is true for effectively every wlan_XXX.c file. * it looks similar to what Marvell donated originally to OLPC * compared to the current in-kernel libertas driver, it has some more code for 802.11a frequencies * older Marvell drivers contained firmware as *.h files, this driver now uses #include <linux/firmware.h> as well As this driver is sdio-only, and we have already other libertas drivers supported in the kernel, it would never accepted as-is in mainland kernel. Therefore I invite Marvell and Intel to participate with the in-kernel libertas driver. I understand that for Intel this might not be possible immediately, because the current libertas driver might not work on their Atom-reference platform, but I guess in the long-run could be beneficial. I CC'ed feng tang from "git log debian/patches/0019-marvell_8686_8688.patch" therefore :-) -- 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
