On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 10:01 AM, Daniel Gimpelevich<daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:> 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. Yeah I abandoned that due to lack of time but it can certainly betaken over. I was hoping someone with enough interest would do it. Ididn't get too far though. Luis��.n��������+%������w��{.n�����{���zW����ܨ}���Ơz�j:+v�����w����ޙ��&�)ߡ�a����z�ޗ���ݢj��w�f
