On 12/25/08, Michael Buesch <mb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thursday 25 December 2008 01:05:30 Johannes Berg wrote: >> Hey, >> >> I hope those of you who got their presents today enjoyed that. Here's >> one from me for the poor souls like myself who have a Broadcom 11n chip: >> >> I've been publishing specifications for things we have reverse >> engineered, is anyone interested in implementing this? If so, go wild, >> but synchronise on the list if there are multiple people. John, I think >> you had somebody who was interested, but I can't find the email right >> now. >> >> Michael has said that he might be able to help a bit (review maybe), but >> won't implement the bulk of it. And I actually need this code ASAP since >> I failed to replace the wireless card in my new MacBook (I couldn't even >> find it). > > Of course, I will always be available to give advise and help on the > technical details. > With the recent merge of the PHY abstraction in b43 it shouldn't be that > hard > anymore to understand the basics of the code. I think stuff is clearly > modulised now > and fairly easy to understand, after you once understood the basics of the > device. > > So for implementing N-PHY, you'll basically work inside of the phy_n.c and > phy_n.h files only (maybe 98% of the work will be there). > > So, you could probably look into phy_g.c to get an idea of how this could > probably > look like. > > Please contact us before you start writing patches, so we can give some > additional > advise on coding conventions used in the driver. > Consider the currently AGNX project in logjam cause lack of some RF specs detail, I think I have some time to do this. or with other guys who also interesting with it. Merry Christmas to everybody! :) BR Yanbo -- 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
