On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 11:58:17AM -0800, Ben Greear wrote: > David Hollis wrote:
> >I don't know the details of the Atheros chip to > >know if it might be possible to generate a firmware that users would > >have to install in /lib/firmware and let the driver load it up. If so, > >that would be the answer. > > The HAL is not real firmware..just normal kernel code. I wonder if you > could get around this by using a sort of CPU emulator and/or virtual machine > and load the HAL 'firmware' into that? <brainstorm> Any chance the driver could be rearchitected w/ the HAL functionality moved into a userland helper? I haven't even looked at the driver to see if this could be practical...? </brainstorm> -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
