2009/9/3 Gábor Stefanik <netrolller.3d@xxxxxxxxx>: > 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? Some vendors are selling it, I however do not know the name or have any URL for it. 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
