Rhoads, Rob wrote: >>> I was told by Intel management that the Canonical Lexington team, as >>> part of their support for your customer, would be support this >>> driver on the customers HW. If that's wrong now would be the time to >>> correct this misunderstanding. The problem with this driver is that >>> the vendor providing it is unwilling to support it, at this time, on >>> 2.6.22 or beyond nor are they willing to support it on SDIO. >>> >>> >> right now, airdio, a partner of marvell, is working on porting the >> sd8686 v9 driver to 2.6.22. once that work is done and acceptable to us, >> we'll need to get this >> version into the gutsy ppa. >> >> i started the porting work by diff'ing the current version of >> the driverin gutsy to the v9 driver source that >> i downloaded from marvell. my intial changes were sufficient to build >> the driver, however i didn't do >> any actual testing. i passed my initial diffs, my notes, and my >> patches to airdio. >> >> now that the new sdio changes are available from moblin. we ( the >> lexington team ) need to make sure >> there are no regressions before asking amit to push both the new sdio >> stack, and the modified sd8686 >> driver into the gutsy ppa. at the same time, we also need to send the >> updated version of the sd8686 driver >> to airdio, so they can make the same changes to the v9 driver. >> > > The driver I've been talking about was the new 8688 driver, not the 8686 > one. After we have the 8688 driver integrated in moblin.org, we'll > update the 8686 driver to the latest code we've received from Marvell, > which I believe it v9. > ok.
i just want to re-iterate that airdio ( they make the part being used by our customer ) is currently working on porting the v9 driver to gutsy as we'd been told several times that intel would not be doing this work. they told us that they'd have a first-pass done by 12/7 and the work finalized by 12/24. i'm questioning this schedule somewhat as they do not yet have the new SDIO patch(es), and thus will need them before they can deliver us a final version of the driver. in order to avoid duplicate work, it might make sense for your team to work with airdio on updating the driver to v9. i can get you contact info for airdio if you'd like. >> We will provide the initial port of the SDIO WLAN & BT (8688 only) >> drivers from 2.6.22 to 2.6.24, but don't have the resources or expertise >> to really support them. Which is why we need the OSVs to help out here. >> We're still working on the schedule for porting/moving all of our >> moblin.org kernel patches from 2.6.22 to 2.6.24, when we have the >> schedule we'll be sure to publish it to the team. >> so to be clear, you're going to port/move all of the moblin.org kernel patches *except* the 8686 driver? if so, would it be possible to help support airdio if they were to do this work? thanks, /tony -- Ubuntu-mobile mailing list Ubuntu-mobile@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-mobile
