Atheros ar9271 support work is underway with the initial hardware revision support already added on ath9k [1]. This driver shares a lot of the framework used by ar6k so there may be potential of sharing there. The final step of course is to add mac80211 support. ar9271 will just be the first of a few generation of firmware based Atheros 11n devices as such a different driver core will need to be written to support these devices, specifically for usb its important as we need to sleep during reads/writes, re-using ath9k as is may not quite do it. To help iron out the specifics we would like to work with the community on the rest of the driver. For now I've stuffed what I have with a clean history on a git repo. If you'd like to work on the driver I welcome patches: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/ar9271.git You can get the ar9271.fw firmware here: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/athfw2lnx.git I encourage really interested developers to please send me a note as we would like to allocate sample cards for you. Bare with me on the progress of the driver, this code is so new I haven't even tested if firmware loading works but I think it may. At least it compiles now. I'm not yet sure if working with a separate repo or staging might be best here as the driver does not yet give STA functionality, the whole mac80211 driver part still remains to be developed. Lets play it by ear, I'll see if we can get a mailing list created in the meantime unless Greg doesn't mind me borrowing the driver project mailing list for that. [1] http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=124935567308276&w=2 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
