[Commotion-dev] Fwd: Re: [Announce] open ath9k_htc firmware

[Dan Staples]

Ah, it appears I misspoke. The announcement is about the firmware, not
the driver. Still, an interesting development.

On 03/08/2013 10:42 PM, Dan Staples wrote:
> 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.
>
> Dan
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: 	Re: [Announce] open ath9k_htc firmware
> Date: 	Fri, 8 Mar 2013 15:46:38 -0800
> From: 	Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof at do-not-panic.com>
> To: 	Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org>
> CC: 	linux-wireless at vger.kernel.org, ath9k-devel
> <ath9k-devel at lists.ath9k.org>, ath9k_htc_fw at lists.infradead.org, Chris
> Zankel <chris at zankel.net>, linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org, Marc Gauthier
> <marc at tensilica.com>
>
>
>
> 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:
>
> http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/ath9k_htc_fw
>
> Full steam ahead!
>
>   Luis
>
> On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 3:32 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org> 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:
> >
> > https://github.com/qca/open-ath9k-htc-firmware
> >
> > 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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Dan Staples

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