On Tue, 2011-10-18 at 11:13 +0200, Andrés García Saavedra wrote: > Hi all, > > I would like to test Notice of Absence powersaving protocol for > 802.11abg WLANs on some current android smartphone. My question is > regarding the wl1251 driver implementation for TI chipsets: > > * Does the chipset/current implementation support sleep/awake > triggers? (or at least quiet elements?) -> This means, can I command > the NIC to stay quiet (slept) for certain duration of time? > > My plan is to implement/test a Notice of Absence protocol where the > driver would trigger absent (quiet/sleep) periods according to the > beacon's NoA IE. Ive seen in the code the wl1251_ps_elp_sleep/wakeup > functions that might be reused for this purpose (?) > > * Last (lazy) question. AFAIK only the google dev 1 phone uses this > chipset. Is there any 1ghz android device that could benefit of this > driver? You should look for a device with some newer chip, like the wl1271, for instance. We are currently developing the wl12xx driver (for wl127x and wl128x) a lot more actively than wl1251. Besides, I don't think there's any newer Android phone using wl1251... -- Cheers, Luca. -- 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
