On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 12:27 +0200, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 06:12 -0400, Bernardo Innocenti wrote: > > > 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? > > 'Maintained' is a bit of a strong word.... what we have is found at > http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/libertas-dev/2007-August/000641.html
That's the 8335 though, which is much more of a softmac part than the 8388. The two are not driver level or firmware level compatible :( Dan > > And is mesh networking really (going to be) supported in softmac? > > It's a safe bet that the mac80211 stack will grow 802.11s support at > some point. It may well be useful for us to do it relatively soon. We > could use _any_ Linux-supported softmac card to interact with the mesh > that way. > > > 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. > > s/known-good/debuggable/ -- and it might not require too many changes to > the existing firmware. > > In the long run, softmac¹ definitely isn't the way to go for XO -- even > if you switch it to being completely autonomous while the XO is off, you > just don't want to be processing all the infrastructure stuff on the > Geode. For _debugging_ generic mesh stuff, however, I suspect that's > precisely how we want it. > > When it comes to time to thinking about Gen2... CSR have fullmac devices > and a whole lot of Linux clue. Definitely worth investigating. > _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
