On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 5:28 AM, Vishveshwar <vishveshwarb...@aim.com> wrote: > On Monday, July 9, 2012 2:51:22 PM UTC+5:30, venkat k raju wrote: >> >> Hi Vishveshwar, >> >> thank you!!!! >> >> somehow i got to know like if the kernel version is 2.6.37 then it's have >> wl1271 driver code!! so i am trying to use this instead of the >> downloading&building wifi driver separately as module. >> >> otherwise can you tell me which one is better? as for android suggested. >> > TI recommends to use the compat-wireless drivers instead of the in-kernel > driver for WL1271 as they have various bug-fixes. You are anyway getting the > TI-supported driver sources with rowboat sources (see > <rowboat>/hardware/ti/wlan/wl1271_compat). No need to hunt around for them. > You also get a handy porting guide for WL12xx devices on android at the TI > wiki. > > The rowboat sources are oriented for using loadable kernel drivers for WLAN. > I would recommend you follow the same. You would probably have to make > changes in the wifi HAL to get the kernel built-in driver correctly.
There is 1 more problem with using the in-kernel wifi driver. The request for irq or the power -up/down sequence of the chip (WL_EN) is tied to the insmod/rmmod - via the sdio_register/_unregister - than the ifconfig up/down - so when you build the driver along with kernel, I wonder how we can power-cycle the chip ?? Pretty much clueless myself regarding this ... Would be interesting to know.. > -Vishveshwar >> >> >> >> On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Vishveshwar wrote: >>> >>> On Monday, July 9, 2012 2:12:13 PM UTC+5:30, venkat k raju wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> Dear all, >>>> >>>> i have been working on porting android(gingerbread-2.3.4) with >>>> linux-2.6.37 kernel in am3703 custom board. >>>> >>>> now i want to configure and integrate the wl1271 as built-in driver to >>>> 2.6.37 kernel. >>> >>> >>> Any specific reason to use kernel built-in driver instead to the usual >>> kernel module(*.ko) method used in AOSP/rowboat? >>> >>> Or do you mean to say that you wish to use the WL12xx drivers in the >>> kernel rather than the compat-wireless driver in hardware-ti-wlan? >>> >>> -Vishveshwar >>>> >>>> >>>> can anybody suggest me reference links for how to integrate wifi module >>>> to android frame work? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> thanks&Regards >>>> k.v.raju >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "rowboat" group. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rowboat/-/8NaGZQ_G-8gJ. >>> To post to this group, send email to rowb...@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> rowboat+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/rowboat?hl=en. >> >> >> >> >> -- >> thanks&Regards >> k.v.raju > > -- > unsubscribe: android-porting+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting -- --Pavan Savoy -- unsubscribe: android-porting+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting
