On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 12:54 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez<mcgrof@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm pleased to announce the new home page to Atheros Linux wireless drivers: > > http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/Atheros > > To get updates just subscribe to the wiki. There you will find > information regarding any old legacy Atheros driver and any proper > upstream driver. > > I'd like to also take the time to announce two devices for which > support is currently being developed for: ar5523 and ar9271. Both > ar5523 and ar9271 device support is currently being worked on either > by the community or by Atheros itself. Both of these driver projects > will be using th Linux driver project [1] to gain traction. Patches > and development discussions regarding these two drivers prior to > getting upstream into drivers/net/wireless/ will take place on the > Linux driver project mailing list [2]. For direct one-on-one > communication for support and development we will rely on the > #linux-wireless IRC channel on irc.freenode.net. Both devices are USB > but differ greatly, please visit the ar5523 page [2] and the ar9271 > page [3] for further device specifics and more information. > > The model of development for ar9271 device support is rather new -- we > are not targeting staging, instead we target using the strength of > community development at an extremely early stage, as early as is > possible, even before the device is functional. If we get a device > driver functional prior to meeting upstream requirements then so be it > -- and the driver does gets stuffed into drivers/staging. End goal is > to get it into proper drivers/net/wireless/ but obviously it will not > hurt to get users some device functionality prior to that. > > The time of turnaround to getting users supported either through > drivers/staging or drivers/net/wireless/ will ultimately depend on the > resources dedicated to it. Right now I know only Stefan > Lippers-Hollmann is working on ar5523 support and I'm the only one > working on ar9271 support. With your help I am in hopes this will > change soon. > > [1] http://www.linuxdriverproject.org/twiki/bin/view > [2] http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > [3] http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ar5523 > [4] http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ar9271 > > 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 > About ar9271: is this device already in the market, or the chip itself is also still in development? -- Vista: [V]iruses, [I]ntruders, [S]pyware, [T]rojans and [A]dware. :-) -- 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
