On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 6:38 AM, Maxim Levitsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
The legacy HAL is called legacy HAL because it deals with 802.11abg. These are considered "legacy" technologies. The new stuff is 802.11n and ath9k already has support open for it. > Very nice to hear, Luis _______________________________________________ ath5k-devel mailing list ath5k-devel@lists.ath5k.org https://lists.ath5k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath5k-devel
