On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 09:28:10AM -0500, Marco Peereboom wrote: > I threw my git saving throw so I was able to avoid looking at it. >
There is a version in the OpenWRT tree: https://dev.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/trac.fcgi/browser/trunk/package/ath9k/src/drivers/net/wireless/ath9k The following thread also carries some information: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/18019 Actually, I'm confused. It carries an ISC license with an Atheros copyright. Luis Rodriguez (madwifi/ath5k) and Jouni Malinen (Linux Prism2 HostAP) are working for Atheros now. The code seems to include open source HAL-code, there is no binary blob. The only missing thing is the documentation, but even the existing driver might help to port it to OpenBSD. Actually, the ath9k stuff is very similar to ath5k which is indeed based on my ar5k driver (OpenBSD ath(4))... too bad that Atheros did not decide to use a copyright like Copyright (c) 2008 Atheros Communications Inc. Copyright (c) 2004-2007 Reyk Floeter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> They neither apologized for all the trouble nor give me any credits for my work. ath9k would not exist without my work on the OpenBSD ar5k driver, it was a door opener, the base of the ath5k port, and Atheros' way into the Linux kernel. It was the reason why Luis Rodriguez got his new job. It might help Atheros to gain market shares again, after they lost so many to more open companies like Ralink Tech. At a given time I will have a look at it to see if we can fix our ath(4) driver to support the latest 802.11n chipsets. It was already very close and the released source code might help to fix the issues. I don't think that we need a completely new driver for this in OpenBSD, we have a chipset abstraction in our driver that got removed by the ath5k folks. And the MAC is still almost identical. Reyk
