Thin firmware + driver first development release

2008-05-09 Thread Javier Cardona 
Hi,

We are happy to announce the first development release of the wireless
firmware + driver compatible with the kernel's mac80211 stack. This is
a first step towards supporting a soft Access Point (hostap) on the
xo, a project in which are actively working.

The release is made of the following pieces:

Firmware: http://dev.laptop.org/pub/firmware/libertas/thinfirm
Driver: git clone git://dev.laptop.org/users/javier/libertastf.git
HOW_TO: http://dev.laptop.org/pub/firmware/libertas/thinfirm/HOW_TO

Release Notes:

- Implemented mac80211 support for scanning, association and rate adaptation.
- No power management nor security is supported.
- Driver can coexist with original libertas driver but we recommend
blacklisting one of them in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist and
rmmod/modprobe when willing to experiment with it.
- The driver has been greatly simplified, but we are still working in
getting it simpler, specially in command handling.
- Since the device does not report the MAC address until the firmware
is loaded, we use a fake multicast mac address for the device until
the first time an interface is brought up. Thanks to Johannes Berg for
his help with this issue.
- The driver was developed on wireless-testing branch and compiled
fine on olpc-2.6 but faced other problems (display, touchpad) that
prevented us testing it on the xo.  Waiting for olpc-2.6 master to
stabilize after it merged with 2.6.26.

Please send all feedback to this list cc'ing luisca or javier AT cozybit.com

Cheers,

The friendly folks at cozybit

-- 
Javier Cardona
cozybit Inc.
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Re: Thin firmware + driver first development release

2008-05-09 Thread David Woodhouse 
On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 16:06 -0700, Javier Cardona wrote:
 Hi,
 
 We are happy to announce the first development release of the wireless
 firmware + driver compatible with the kernel's mac80211 stack. This is
 a first step towards supporting a soft Access Point (hostap) on the
 xo, a project in which are actively working.
 
 The release is made of the following pieces:
 
 Firmware: http://dev.laptop.org/pub/firmware/libertas/thinfirm
 Driver: git clone git://dev.laptop.org/users/javier/libertastf.git
 HOW_TO: http://dev.laptop.org/pub/firmware/libertas/thinfirm/HOW_TO

Excellent; thanks. Were you planning to make the API for this 'thin
firmware' compatible with the 'thin firmware' on other devices? Should
the folks working on http://git.infradead.org/mrv8k-2.6.git be trying to
merge with your driver?

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Re: Thin firmware + driver first development release

2008-05-09 Thread Javier Cardona 
David,

On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 8:05 PM, David Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Excellent; thanks. Were you planning to make the API for this 'thin
 firmware' compatible with the 'thin firmware' on other devices?

Other Marvell devices, yes, to whatever extent we can.

 Should the folks working on http://git.infradead.org/mrv8k-2.6.git be trying 
 to
 merge with your driver?

Not sure.  I just found out about this project.  We'll check it out and see.

Thanks,

Javier
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