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This seems like important news for future efforts utilizing USB wifi
hardware with the ath9k_htc driver. It's a driver I've had great
experiences with, and Ben West has been doing work with it as well,
creating multiple virtual wireless interfaces in different modes.
Developments with this driver will benefit us in creating
virtualized Commotion nodes, or porting Commotion to devices like
tablets and the Raspberry Pi...really anything with a USB port.<br>
<br>
Dan<br>
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<td>Re: [Announce] open ath9k_htc firmware</td>
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<td>Fri, 8 Mar 2013 15:46:38 -0800</td>
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<td>Luis R. Rodriguez <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:mcgrof@do-not-panic.com"><mcgrof@do-not-panic.com></a></td>
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<td>Adrian Chadd <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:adrian@freebsd.org"><adrian@freebsd.org></a></td>
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<td><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org">linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org</a>, ath9k-devel
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org"><ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org></a>,
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:ath9k_htc_fw@lists.infradead.org">ath9k_htc_fw@lists.infradead.org</a>, Chris Zankel
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:chris@zankel.net"><chris@zankel.net></a>, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org">linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org</a>,
Marc Gauthier <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:marc@tensilica.com"><marc@tensilica.com></a></td>
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<pre>Many thanks to Adrian for his hard work on all this and to everyone
else who volunteered to help make this happen, including the
understanding by our management at QCA and even Tensilica requires
some handsome applause for their commitment, understanding on letting
us get this out. We now have a public mailing list for development:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/ath9k_htc_fw">http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/ath9k_htc_fw</a>
Full steam ahead!
Luis
On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 3:32 PM, Adrian Chadd <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:adrian@freebsd.org"><adrian@freebsd.org></a> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I hate fanfare.
>
> You can all thank Luis Rodriguez for his ridiculously long and hard
> fighting to get this stuff pushed through the grinder to make this
> happen.
>
> There's also been a hard working team of developers behind the scene -
> Felix Fietkau, Eugene Krasnikov, Sujith Manoharan, and the team from
> Cozybit. They've been working hard to get the codebase converted over
> to using the open source tensilica toolchain and finding/fixing up any
> silly issues that may creep up from that.
>
> I've just been involved in shepharding this stuff into a sensible
> shape and pushing it through the final stage (legal review) before
> publication.
>
> You can find it here:
>
> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://github.com/qca/open-ath9k-htc-firmware">https://github.com/qca/open-ath9k-htc-firmware</a>
>
> There's a bunch of sorely needed work to do in the short term:
>
> * felix has a replacement cmake build system that I'd like to now integrate;
> * there's lots of build warnings which need to be removed (and then
> build this thing using -Wall -Werror);
> * some general code cleanup and documentation wouldn't be rejected -
> but I don't really want any sweeping code changes to go in until we've
> tidied up the build warnings and validated that the image(s) work
> right.
>
> I plan on doing some test builds shortly. I plan on bumping the
> firmware to 1.4 once felix's cmake system is in place and people have
> validated that this work.s
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> Adrian
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