On Sat, 2008-11-29 at 09:48 +0100, Michael Renzmann wrote: > Hi all. > > Interesting news (based on an announcement that Sam sent out): > > === cut === > Sam Leffler, maintainer of the binary HAL that is also used in MadWifi > releases, has released the source code for his HAL variant under ISC > license. It is available through a Subversion repository [1] (web > interface at [2]), which is also be used actively for development and > further improvements. > > In his announcement, Sam states: > > "Coincident with the release of this code I have concluded my agreement > with Atheros whereby I had access to information about their devices. > This means that in the future all fixes, updates for new chips, etc. will > need to be a community effort. Atheros states the Linux platform will be > the reference public code base so folks wanting to add support for other > platforms will have to scrape the information from there." > > "Linux platform" refers to ath5k and ath9k. Interested parties are advised > to attend the ath5k-devel [3] and ath9k-devel [4] mailing lists. These > lists may be also used to ask general questions about the chipsets > supported by the respective drivers. > > [1] svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/projects/ath_hal > [2] http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base/projects/ath_hal/ > [3] https://lists.ath5k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath5k-devel > [4] https://lists.ath9k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath9k-devel > === cut === > > Bye, Mike > > _______________________________________________ > ath5k-devel mailing list > ath5k-devel@lists.ath5k.org > https://lists.ath5k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath5k-devel
Does this sound great to you? So now whole source of HAL is open, not just legacy one. Very nice to hear, Maxim Levitsky _______________________________________________ ath5k-devel mailing list ath5k-devel@lists.ath5k.org https://lists.ath5k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath5k-devel
