On Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:08:37 -0400, Dan Williams wrote: > On Fri, 2008-08-15 at 12:58 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 12:40:27PM -0700, Pat Erley wrote: >> > Has anyone stepped up to help in the port of this to mac80211? I >> > just picked up a wrvs4400n router that uses it and have been working >> > on getting 2.6.XX to work with it. >> >> Not that I have heard of. Don't know. > > There's code out there for the TopDog parts (Linville's marvell.git on > kernel.org), and I even have one or two of them lying around. The > firmware interface isn't that different from the 8335 (mrv8k) and thus > the two product lines can probably share the same driver. > > Lennert and Nick (from Marvell) are supposed to be working on a mac80211 > driver for the 88w8687 part, which is probably just about the same > firmware interface as TopDog (aside from the N-specific bits, and > different TX & RX descriptors I'm sure). I'd prefer to either start > fixing up mrv8k and then merge into whatever Lennert comes up with, or > see what they come up with and use that as a base for adding support for > older TopDog and 8310/8335 hardware. > > mrv8k was always a bit rocky and never reliably got scan results on the > 8335 cardbus hardware I had, even though the descriptor setup and the > mac80211 bits looked right. There's some pre/post scan commands that we > need to hook into mac80211 which I posted patches for first, but > Johannes requested we not commit those until we really knew whether > pre/post scan were required. > > Dan Duh... http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/mrvl_cb82.git;a=summary Also, I have a router with an 8361 chip and Linux Inside™ for which I have made a GPL Source Request. I was told that the sources will be available two weeks from now. I don't expect the wi-fi driver to be in source form in that release, but you never know in advance what they'll stuff in there. -- 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
