David Woodhouse wrote: > On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 22:41 -0400, Ivan Krstić wrote: >> On Sep 10, 2007, at 9:31 PM, Bernardo Innocenti wrote: >>> In the same thread, Ivan said he may have found a full-time person for >>> the job (what happened, then?). >> It was put on hold because IP issues weren't worked out, and it >> didn't look likely they would before first ship.
What particular IP issues? Are there patents on 802.11s? Even though it's an IEEE standard? > There was an alternative libertas driver which uses the device in 'dumb' > mode with the kernel's mac80211 stack. Coupled with mesh support in > mac80211 that might make a somewhat suboptimal alternative to truly free > firmware. Fascinating. This way at least we use a smaller portion of the closed firmware. Where is this driver maintained? And is mesh networking really (going to be) supported in softmac? I'd suggest whoever starts a firmware rewriting effort to go this route, at least initially. So they can relay on known-good mac80211 code while rewriting just a tiny low-level RF driver. -- // Bernardo Innocenti - http://www.codewiz.org/ \X/ One Laptop Per Child - http://www.laptop.org/ _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
