Yeah, leave it with me. I'm still trying to chase down the right person internally to speak to about such old hardware. :-) I'll let you know if I can find the firmware source and tools. Adrian ________________________________________ From: Pontus Fuchs [pontus.fuchs@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, 12 October 2012 1:33 AM To: Julian Calaby Cc: Greg KH; linux-wireless@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; hch@xxxxxx; s.L-H@xxxxxx; linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; Rodriguez, Luis; Manoharan, Sujith; Shajakhan, Mohammed Shafi (Mohammed Shafi); Chadd, Adrian Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Driver for the ar5523 chipset On 2012-10-12 10:23, Julian Calaby wrote: > Hi Pontus, > > On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 5:52 PM, Pontus Fuchs <pontus.fuchs@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> * The FW API is reverse engineered and no real documentation is available. > > Have you asked the Atheros guys (mostly CC'd) if there's any > possibility of the documentation / firmware being released? > Yes I have. Adrian promised to see what could be done regarding docs. The FW blob is already released under a good license. I guess the best thing would be if Adrian or Luis could submit the fw to linux-firmware but lets deal with that when/if the driver gets merged. Cheers, Pontus -- 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
