On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Martin Schleier <drahemmaps@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Till Kamppeter <till.kamppeter@...> writes: > >> >> On 03/08/2012 10:45 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: >> > >> > So one idea I had was working on open firmware for ath9k_htc. We don't >> > have the resources to open that up but can likely provide under NDA >> > source code to let it get cleaned up for public release. If this is >> > reasonable I'll throw it on. >> > >> >> OK, please do it. >> >> Till > > Wait wait wait... qualcomm/Atheros does not have the resources, so how on earth > should a student (or students) actually do that? > > Given the TODO over at > <http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath9k_htc#TODO> [Scroll down till > you get "fixed in the firmware. ]. This would be at least one years of full-time > work for a small team of trained code-monkey and therefore this "project" is > highly unrealistic. It didn't take one year to open up the ar9170.fw [0] which lead to carl9170.fw [1] and we even had two drivers from this work. I think you underestimate our potential ;) [0] http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ar9170.fw [1] http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/carl9170.fw > Maybe we should stick to something less complicated. Lets not undermine potential. > Like extending PID to use MCS rates, or implementing a TPC control algorithm > [this is stuff, every drivers could use]. PID? Hah, PID is dead. And TPC -- well... that requires a long answer. Just finding documentation on TPC and what vendors do for TPC is as much hard work as writing open firmware. But hey, its a wiki, feel free to add what you think might be good, you can, and please be verbose ;) http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/GSoC/2012 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
