On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 12:32 +0200, Kalle Valo wrote: > Hello all, > > in Nokia we have been working on a mac80211 driver for TI wl1251 > chipset. We named it as wl12xx, and in the future we are planning to > add wl1271 support to the driver as well. > > wl1251 is a chipset for embedded devices, supporting both SDIO and SPI > busses. Currently the driver supports only SPI. Adding support 1253 > (the 5 GHz version) should be relatively easy. More information here: > > http://focus.ti.com/general/docs/wtbu/wtbuproductcontent.tsp?contentId=4711&navigationId=12494&templateId=6123 > > Because the patch is over 200 KB, the driver is temporarily available > from my server: > > http://www.valot.fi/kalle/tmp/wl12xx/wl12xx-2.6.28-1.patch > > The patch is against linux-2.6.28-omap1 tag available here: > > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/tmlind/linux-omap-2.6.git;a=commit;h=0ec95b96fd77036a13398c66901e11cd301190d0 > > Currently known issues: > > o short slot and preamble support missing > o rts/cts and cts-to-self missing > o no proper bitrate control support > o using deprecated omap_get_config(), need to convert to use platform_data > o firmware wakeup not working, deepest sleep state in firmware not yet > enabled > > Also the driver has a netlink interface which is used for running > production line tests and pushing the calibration data from user > space. When is the calibration data required, and is it likely to change at runtime? What I really mean is, if the calibration data isn't required to change while the interface is up, maybe use request_firmware() and load it at device open time or something? 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
