Sam Leffler wrote:
Lev Serebryakov wrote:
Hello Sam,
Sunday, May 13, 2007, 10:11:18 PM, you wrote:
Hello All,
Is here any work to support newest Atheros chipsets, AR5513, for
example, in ath(4)?
SL> This is a MIPS-based SoC. Supporting it requires a lot more than just
SL> ath changes.
Oops. Year ot two and every chip and card in PC will have its own OS -- GPU,
network, sound, etc :)
There is not documentation/firmware form Atheros, of course?
For Atheros SoC = GPU + Wireless h/w. The wireless h/w is not exposed
via PCI bus but sits on an internal bus and is controlled by the GPU
which runs a complete OS like linux or netbsd (and hopefully some day
freebsd). The ath driver just needs the appropriate bus shim to work
and support has been available for a while.
I suppose, that 802.11n draft chipsets are SoCs too?
The 5416 and 5418 are stock PCI (-express) parts that require the host
to handle much of the 11n protocol. I've given out test hal's that
support these parts (in legacy mode) for many months.
I was trying to add 5513, 5416/5418 in FreeBSD 6.2 to support these
chips but the hal is distributed in
binary mode, and I do not have time to rewite whole thing from scratch.
That is cool. Where can I get the ATH hal for testing? I have all types
of Atheros mini-PCI cards and I can
test them on FreeBSD 6.2 (only 6.2-R).
-Jin
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