On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 09:37:21AM -0800, Dan Williams wrote: > On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 11:16 -0500, John W. Linville wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 11:10:06AM -0500, Dan Williams wrote: > > > On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 03:55 +0100, Lennert Buytenhek wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > Attached is an initial version of the mwl8k driver for Marvell 88w8xxx > > > > PCI/PCIe wireless parts (against 2.6.27.1). This version was written > > > > and tested against the 88w8687 (802.11b/g), but it shouldn't be hard to > > > > extend the support to other parts in the 8xxx series, since the firmware > > > > interface is very similar between parts. > > > > > > > > There's an occasional timeout warning with mwl8k_stop(), and hardware > > > > crypto is still a work-in-progress, but other than that it looks pretty > > > > stable. > > > > > > > > Feedback appreciated! > > > > > > Oooh, thanks for the Christmas present. Just in time for the holidays. > > > Is there a git repo somewhere that we could all base off of, so we don't > > > have to deal with patches to patches to patches until it gets into > > > wireless-testing? > > > > I wouldn't worry too much about that. The better questions is where > > do we get firmware? > > I believe I can post it. Marvell recently changed the license terms on > at least some of their firmware to be comparable to other freely > available firmware (like Intel's). Unfortunately you must have an > extranet account to get it (they are working on fixing this too) but > once you have it, the firmware blobs themselves are under a nice > license. I'll try to get something together today. The right thing to do (tm) would be to post the firmware along with a friendly license by the vendor to the linux-firmware git tree. Lennert is this possible? Luis -- 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
