Re: [ath9k-devel] Extensive AR9280 Documentation

2011-01-08 Thread Luca Olivetti
Al 07/01/11 09:49, En/na Adrian Chadd ha escrit: > If you delve down deep enough to begin figuring out how things hold > together in the driver, a few well-placed questions tends to be enough > to get a set of very well-placed answers. Then I must royally suck at formulating questions. At least t

Re: [ath9k-devel] Extensive AR9280 Documentation

2011-01-07 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 7 January 2011 06:17, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: >> When there is working efficient communication then there is also >> no point at all in leaking whatever is considered private. In other >> projects there are NDAs between hardware companies and developers, >> which allows the software to develo

Re: [ath9k-devel] Extensive AR9280 Documentation

2011-01-06 Thread Ben Greear
On 01/06/2011 03:22 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 3:19 PM, Ben Greear wrote: >> On 01/06/2011 03:14 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: >>> On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 3:04 PM, Ben Greear >>> wrote: On 01/06/2011 02:17 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > so it takes time.

Re: [ath9k-devel] Extensive AR9280 Documentation

2011-01-06 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 3:19 PM, Ben Greear wrote: > On 01/06/2011 03:14 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 3:04 PM, Ben Greear  wrote: >>> On 01/06/2011 02:17 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: >>> so it takes time. In the meantime we do enable active developers to work wit

Re: [ath9k-devel] Extensive AR9280 Documentation

2011-01-06 Thread Ben Greear
On 01/06/2011 03:14 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 3:04 PM, Ben Greear wrote: >> On 01/06/2011 02:17 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: >> >>> so it takes time. In the meantime we do enable active developers to >>> work with engineers through our private internal list but since >>

Re: [ath9k-devel] Extensive AR9280 Documentation

2011-01-06 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 3:04 PM, Ben Greear wrote: > On 01/06/2011 02:17 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > >> so it takes time. In the meantime we do enable active developers to >> work with engineers through our private internal list but since >> ath9k is Actively maintained by Atheros engineers if y

Re: [ath9k-devel] Extensive AR9280 Documentation

2011-01-06 Thread Ben Greear
On 01/06/2011 02:17 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > so it takes time. In the meantime we do enable active developers to > work with engineers through our private internal list but since > ath9k is Actively maintained by Atheros engineers if you have issues > they should be clearly reported and Athe

Re: [ath9k-devel] Extensive AR9280 Documentation

2011-01-06 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 01:33:34PM -0800, Peter Stuge wrote: > Daniel Halperin wrote: > > I think the level of support we have now from Atheros is better > > than if they pulled entirely out of Linux and we only got support > > via ndiswrapper and leaked datasheets. > > If only you knew what a jok

Re: [ath9k-devel] Extensive AR9280 Documentation

2011-01-06 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 01:45:48PM -0800, Peter Stuge wrote: > Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > > It helps if the community acknowledges efforts and tries to work > > with companies who are putting good effort on things. > > I would love to ack effort if I had experienced some. I've touched on > a pleth

Re: [ath9k-devel] Extensive AR9280 Documentation

2011-01-06 Thread Peter Stuge
Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > It helps if the community acknowledges efforts and tries to work > with companies who are putting good effort on things. I would love to ack effort if I had experienced some. I've touched on a plethora of indications of significant issues in the driver a few times volunt

Re: [ath9k-devel] Extensive AR9280 Documentation

2011-01-06 Thread Peter Stuge
Daniel Halperin wrote: > I think the level of support we have now from Atheros is better > than if they pulled entirely out of Linux and we only got support > via ndiswrapper and leaked datasheets. If only you knew what a joke your statement is to me. I feel like an absolute fool for buying hardw

Re: [ath9k-devel] Extensive AR9280 Documentation

2011-01-06 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Daniel Halperin wrote: > On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 12:01 PM, Peter Stuge wrote: >> Daniel Halperin wrote: >> Give and take. Want sit on IP go ahead, people will route around to >> find useful solutions. > > I'm really not going to start flaming with you, I'm just goi

Re: [ath9k-devel] Extensive AR9280 Documentation

2011-01-06 Thread Daniel Halperin
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 12:01 PM, Peter Stuge wrote: > Daniel Halperin wrote: >> > I found an interesting document I thought might prove helpful to >> > anybody working on ath9k at a low level: >> >> Oh come on, don't be posting pirate Chinese stolen documents on here; > > Isn't that a matter to ta

Re: [ath9k-devel] Extensive AR9280 Documentation

2011-01-06 Thread Peter Stuge
Daniel Halperin wrote: > > I found an interesting document I thought might prove helpful to > > anybody working on ath9k at a low level: > > Oh come on, don't be posting pirate Chinese stolen documents on here; Isn't that a matter to take up with whoever posted it in the first place, rather than

Re: [ath9k-devel] Extensive AR9280 Documentation

2011-01-06 Thread Daniel Halperin
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Galen wrote: > I found an interesting document I thought might prove helpful to anybody > working on ath9k at a low level: Oh come on, don't be posting pirate Chinese stolen documents on here; we're trying to NOT propagate the myth that all open source users are

[ath9k-devel] Extensive AR9280 Documentation

2011-01-06 Thread Galen
I found an interesting document I thought might prove helpful to anybody working on ath9k at a low level: http://wenku.baidu.com/view/e0e678d184254b35eefd34ed.html This is a very, very in-depth document that details everything from the functional blocks of AR9280 to the registers. I do not belie