Hi, On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Adrian Chadd <adr...@freebsd.org> wrote: > The non-embedded atheros NICs (ie, not the ath6k series stuff) is all > run by the host CPU. There's no firmware that runs on the NIC. > This was why the HAL was binary for so long. Note it is no longer > binary and hasn't been for a few years. > OOTH, AFAIK, Linux folks never used the binary HAL, and had it working, but it was GPL licensed from the beginning.
- Arnaud > So I think we can ignore the whole "binary firmware" problem. There's > working code for these NICs for one or more of NetBSD, OpenBSD and > Linux. > All we need are people with some time and motivation to get it all > working on FreeBSD. I'll commit whatever stuff people come up with. > > (And in the meantime, I'll continue chipping away at 11n support in > ath(4)/ath_hal(4).) > > > Adrian > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
