Is it now faster to use this HAL instead of the reverse engineering one? What impact this will have on madwifi or ath5k?
Maxim Levitsky wrote: > 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 > > -- Louay Sakka CEO LinoWave Corp 1001-101 Champlain Av L7L5Z4 Burlington On Canada Tel: 12892880060 Fax: 12892880061 Cell:12898882248 _______________________________________________ ath5k-devel mailing list ath5k-devel@lists.ath5k.org https://lists.ath5k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath5k-devel
