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Re: [RFC 00/32] ath9k: add initial support for AR9330

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On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 5:46 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 1 June 2011 03:51, Daniel Halperin <dhalperi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Gabor Juhos <juhosg@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> It is a 1x1 chip and supports 2.4GHz only.
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>>>  ath9k: enable antenna diversity for AR9330
>>
>> I'm confused by the combination of these two.
>
> I bet it's like the AR9285 - there's one TX and one RX chain, but two
> RX inputs, two LNAs and some controllable bits to determine how the
> baseband controls how the LNAs are configured/combined for packet RX.
>
> For clarity (heh), see the diversity combining code in recv.c; it
> outlines the various LNA combination modes.

Gotcha. I was under the impression that Atheros has historically
marketed these (misleadingly) as '1x2' devices, e.g., see the '3x3'
devices that have 3 antennas but only 2 chains.

Dan
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