Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2011 11:16:52 -0400 From: Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com> To: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> Cc: "freebsd-net@freebsd.org" <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>, Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> Subject: Re: Broadcom Docs Message-ID: <CACqU3MUif1vth6jnqimwu_diURxGoF8mdHqNhZpgYgg4yu8QJA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAJ-VmokHxu86eNyOCfXfT-nikCj3NYxT1-CHNxEH8sdetqw0TQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <1317656199.15510.5.camel@hitfishpass-lx.corp.yahoo.com> <CACqU3MUN0eG_WFPatO-gNQwohcWy9psncsHuU1V5KwY6CKtn3w@mail.gmail.com> <20111004054444.GA10311@tinyCurrent> <CAJ-VmomWYL0ABx%2BsQzJzYOD5hUPDQ0BtwUPfTgZrp4X2md5rZA@mail.gmail.com> <20111004083710.GA1054@tiny> <20111004140114.GA38162@in-addr.com> <CAJ-VmokHxu86eNyOCfXfT-nikCj3NYxT1-CHNxEH8sdetqw0TQ@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi, On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Adrian Chadd <adrian@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-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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