Release of Atheros 802.11abg HAL under the ISC
As part of our commitment to help support all of our Atheros devices under Linux we'd like to announce the release of our Atheros HAL for our 802.11abg chipsets under the ISC license.
You can find it here:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mcgrof/legacy-hal.tar.bz2
This can be used as a source of documentation to help ath5k move forward to support our 802.11abg chipsets as best as possible in the Linux kernel. We look forward to keep working strongly with the community on advancing support of all our Atheros chipsets under Linux.
Luis
2008/9/27 Luis R. Rodriguez <[email protected]>:
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As part of our commitment to help support all of our Atheros devices under Linux we'd like to announce the release of our Atheros HAL for our 802.11abg chipsets under the ISC license.
You can find it here:
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http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mcgrof/legacy-hal.tar.bz2
This can be used as a source of documentation to help ath5k move forward to support our 802.11abg chipsets as best as possible in the Linux kernel. We look forward to keep working strongly with the community on advancing support of all our Atheros chipsets under Linux.
Luis
Thanks a lot for this !!!
Can't wait to get my hands dirty ;-)
I 'll start merging stuff on ath5k asap !!!
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Quoted 4 lines · On Friday 26 September 2008 23:57:01 Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
As part of our commitment to help support all of our Atheros devices under Linux we'd like to announce the release of our Atheros HAL for our 802.11abg chipsets under the ISC license.
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You can find it here:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mcgrof/legacy-hal.tar.bz2
This can be used as a source of documentation to help ath5k move forward to support our 802.11abg chipsets as best as possible in the Linux kernel. We look forward to keep working strongly with the community on advancing support of all our Atheros chipsets under Linux.
Great news. Thanks a lot for your amazing work at atheros, Luis!
I hope that other companies *cough* reconsider moving towards this direction, too.
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Greetings Michael.
Quoted 4 lines · Luis R. Rodriguez
As part of our commitment to help support all of our Atheros devices under Linux we'd like to announce the release of our Atheros HAL for our 802.11abg chipsets under the ISC license.
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You can find it here:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mcgrof/legacy-hal.tar.bz2
This can be used as a source of documentation to help ath5k move forward to support our 802.11abg chipsets as best as possible in the Linux kernel. We look forward to keep working strongly with the community on advancing support of all our Atheros chipsets under Linux.
Wonderful, thanks a lot for making this happen!
greg k-h
Quoted 4 lines · Luis R. Rodriguez
As part of our commitment to help support all of our Atheros devices under Linux we'd like to announce the release of our Atheros HAL for our 802.11abg chipsets under the ISC license.
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You can find it here:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mcgrof/legacy-hal.tar.bz2
This can be used as a source of documentation to help ath5k move forward to support our 802.11abg chipsets as best as possible in the Linux kernel. We look forward to keep working strongly with the community on advancing support of all our Atheros chipsets under Linux.
If I understand this correctly, madwifi is no longer a non-free driver?
Regards,
Maxim Levitsky
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If I understand this correctly, madwifi is no longer a non-free driver?
MadWifi is based on a proprietary HAL which is slightly different than this one, so no, its still non-free. The "free" drivers where I think focus should be put in is ath5k and ath9k as they are now both merged as part of the Linux kernel.
Luis
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If I understand this correctly, madwifi is no longer a non-free driver?
MadWifi is based on a proprietary HAL which is slightly different than this one, so no, its still non-free. The "free" drivers where I think focus should be put in is ath5k and ath9k as they are now both merged as part of the Linux kernel.
The hal is not proprietary; Atheros just won't allow me to release it. And there are significant differences between the two code bases.
Sam
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MadWifi is based on a proprietary HAL which is slightly different than this one, so no, its still non-free. The "free" drivers where I think focus should be put in is ath5k and ath9k as they are now both merged as part of the Linux kernel.
The hal is not proprietary; Atheros just won't allow me to release it. And there are significant differences between the two code bases.
Perhaps you and Luis can work together on fixing that problem?
And Luis, congratulations on your work so far. It has really paid off.
-hpa
Quoted 4 lines · Luis R. Rodriguez
As part of our commitment to help support all of our Atheros devices under Linux we'd like to announce the release of our Atheros HAL for our 802.11abg chipsets under the ISC license.
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You can find it here:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mcgrof/legacy-hal.tar.bz2
This can be used as a source of documentation to help ath5k move forward to support our 802.11abg chipsets as best as possible in the Linux kernel. We look forward to keep working strongly with the community on advancing support of all our Atheros chipsets under Linux.
GREAT!
Quoted 7 lines · Luis R. Rodriguez
As part of our commitment to help support all of our Atheros devices under Linux we'd like to announce the release of our Atheros HAL for our 802.11abg chipsets under the ISC license.
You can find it here:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mcgrof/legacy-hal.tar.bz2
Awesome news!! Thank you Luis and Atheros!
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Quoted 4 lines · Luis R. Rodriguez
As part of our commitment to help support all of our Atheros devices under Linux we'd like to announce the release of our Atheros HAL for our 802.11abg chipsets under the ISC license.
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You can find it here:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mcgrof/legacy-hal.tar.bz2
This can be used as a source of documentation to help ath5k move forward to support our 802.11abg chipsets as best as possible in the Linux kernel. We look forward to keep working strongly with the community on advancing support of all our Atheros chipsets under Linux.
Awesome...simply, awesome!
I hereby nominate Atheros for this year's "Most Improved Open Source Corporate Citizen" award! :-)
Great job, Luis!
John
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As part of our commitment to help support all of our Atheros devices under Linux we'd like to announce the release of our Atheros HAL for our 802.11abg chipsets under the ISC license.
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You can find it here:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mcgrof/legacy-hal.tar.bz2
This can be used as a source of documentation to help ath5k move forward to support our 802.11abg chipsets as best as possible in the Linux kernel. We look forward to keep working strongly with the community on advancing support of all our Atheros chipsets under Linux.
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Awesome...simply, awesome!
I hereby nominate Atheros for this year's "Most Improved Open Source Corporate Citizen" award! :-)
Great job, Luis!
John
Luis _has_ done a great job. Having dealt with Atheros in another life, I can appreciate the mountains he's moved.
I would also offer my appreciation to those unnamed, enlightened individuals within Atheros that made this possible. Nothing would please me more then to be able to drop the madwifi HAL in favor of full support from ath5k.
rtg
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Quoted 13 lines · Luis R. Rodriguez
As part of our commitment to help support all of our Atheros devices under Linux we'd like to announce the release of our Atheros HAL for our 802.11abg chipsets under the ISC license.
You can find it here:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mcgrof/legacy-hal.tar.bz2
This can be used as a source of documentation to help ath5k move forward to support our 802.11abg chipsets as best as possible in the Linux kernel. We look forward to keep working strongly with the community on advancing support of all our Atheros chipsets under Linux.
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Luis
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Great!
Why is #ath9k invite only?
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Hi.
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Why is #ath9k invite only?
It's not particularly on-topic here, so just a short note: #ath9k should not be invite-only (but I will check again). It forwards to #madwifi, which is used for discussion about MadWifi, ath5k and ath9k.
Bye, Mike
Luis,
Quoted 6 lines · Luis R. Rodriguez
As part of our commitment to help support all of our Atheros devices under Linux we'd like to announce the release of our Atheros HAL for our 802.11abg chipsets under the ISC license.
You can find it here:
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http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mcgrof/legacy-hal.tar.bz2
This can be used as a source of documentation to help ath5k move forward to support our 802.11abg chipsets as best as possible in the Linux kernel. We look forward to keep working strongly with the community on advancing support of all our Atheros chipsets under Linux.
Luis
A huge vote of thanks and congratulations are due to Atheros for taking the step of releasing the HAL. There will be many in the open source community celebrating this move.
Much Kudos is due to Atheros for taking this step.
The ath5k community is going to benefit hugely from being able to optimise the driver based on a more accurate knowledge of the workings of the HAL.
Patches like
https://lists.ath5k.org/pipermail/ath5k-devel/2008-September/001311.html
will improve the reliability, and are only possible because of the release of the HAL.
Thanks are due to Luis also, for taking his part in getting the HAL released.
Perhaps we can all now work together on getting a stable driver for Atheros cards under Linux. - Ath5k or Ath9k (don't care which).
Derek.
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As part of our commitment to help support all of our Atheros devices under Linux we'd like to announce the release of our Atheros HAL for our 802.11abg chipsets under the ISC license.
You can find it here:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mcgrof/legacy-hal.tar.bz2
This can be used as a source of documentation to help ath5k move forward to support our 802.11abg chipsets as best as possible in the Linux kernel. We look forward to keep working strongly with the community on advancing support of all our Atheros chipsets under Linux.
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Luis
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Thanks for your great job
would you tell me which version of the madwifi you tested with the HAL source, and work? I've tried with madwifi-0.9.3.1 and simply replaced the xscale-be-elf.hal.o.uu with the new one. madwifi-0.9.3.1 use HAL 0.9.18 by default, and the HAL from your source is 0.9.17.1.
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would you tell me which version of the madwifi you tested with the HAL source, and work? I've tried with madwifi-0.9.3.1 and simply replaced the xscale-be-elf.hal.o.uu with the new one. madwifi-0.9.3.1 use HAL 0.9.18 by default, and the HAL from your source is 0.9.17.1.
this code isn't meant to be used, with madwifi or otherwise, other than for improving ath5k, so what you're asking isn't a sensible question.
johannes
2008/10/24 JUN <[email protected]>:
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and the HAL from
your source is 0.9.17.1.
It's much better (notice AR2425 etc support), they just haven't updated the version string.
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