On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 13:30 -0800, John Daiker wrote: > On 01/08/2009 09:23 AM, 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! > >> > > > > Would you guys mind if we split this up into an mwl8k core, and separate > > mwl8335 and mwl8687 modules? In starting to add at least firmware > > upload for the 8335 last night, I realized that most of the 8687 > > hardware access code won't work, because it's using DMA for passing the > > firmware image to the card, while the 8335 uses many small writes to the > > registers. So I'd like to refactor the driver into those 3 distinct > > modules instead. Eventually there will probably be 8361 and 8362 > > modules as well once the TopDog N parts get added. > > > > Sound OK? I'm working locally with git, but if I go too far it'll be a > > ton of work to merge any changes you have. Can we put this in a git > > tree somewhere and all work from that while we wait for a merge? > > > > Dan > > > Has any of this landed in a git repo yet? I have an 8335 chip and would > love to help with testing, but need a place to find bits, first. It's not in wireless-testing yet, because I don't think Lennert posted an updated patchset addressing the comments from before Christmas. Dan -- 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
