Al 04/04/11 19:48, En/na Luca Olivetti ha escrit: > The following patch adds ath9k support to the arv7518 board. > > The pci fixup routine (needed since the ar9223 has no onboard > eeprom) is taken from the ar71xx: > > https://dev.openwrt.org/browser/trunk/target/linux/ar71xx/files/arch/mips/ar71xx/pci-ath9k-fixup.c > https://dev.openwrt.org/browser/trunk/target/linux/ar71xx/files/arch/mips/ar71xx/pci-ath9k-fixup.h > > with a couple of changes. > > As I said, the ar9223 has no onboard eeprom, so it uses the system > flash, which holds the fixup data as well as the calibration data, > however the regdomain in the system flash is set at 0, and it will > setup the card to the most restrictive mode (i.e. channels 12 and > 13 aren't available). > The original firmware overrides the regdomain and the device capabilities > (I suppose that arcadyan uses the same caldata all over the world and then > customizes the firmware instead of properly set the regdomain). > The patch does the same only if in the kernel command line the parameter > "ath9k_regdomain" and/or "ath9k_caps" are specified, hence the > xway_cmdline parameter in image/Makefile has to be changed not > to clobber the command line set in u-boot.
> I forgot to say that it needs this patch in mac80211 > > http://patchwork.midlink.org/patch/727/ > > without it, initialization of the card would fail (no other harm should be > done). At the risk of being called impatient, I'd like some feedback (and some help in fixing the performance issues I encountered). Bye -- Luca _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
