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Date:      Thu, 22 Aug 2013 01:12:44 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        Ilya Bakulin <ilya@bakulin.de>
Cc:        "freebsd-arm@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org>, Alexander Motin <mav@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-embedded@freebsd.org" <freebsd-embedded@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: [PATCH] SDIO support for Globalscale Dreamplug
Message-ID:  <3C9989C8-BB72-4BD6-9246-4AD3790D4732@bsdimp.com>
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On Aug 22, 2013, at 12:18 AM, Ilya Bakulin wrote:

> Hi Adrian,
>=20
> On 21.08.13 23:37, Adrian Chadd wrote:
>> Hi!
>>=20
>> The marvell wifi stuff isn't ARM specific, right? So it should live =
in
>> dev/ rather than arm/
>=20
> Furthermore, it's only partly SDIO-specific. The same driver should =
work
> for USB- and PCIe-based versions of Marvell Avastar 88W8787 and =
88W8797.
> The Linux driver is split into several files, by the way, for PCIe, =
USB
> and SDIO, then for station and AP mode.

We don't have any drivers in the tree that are this bus agnostic. Would =
be cool to grow some :)

> I think the best way to organize the code is to split it in layers, =
like
> it is for ath.
> I didn't know that the code is going to be universal when I started to
> code the driver,
> so that's why if is in sys/arm/mv.

Makes sense.

> The code in Linux driver is clean and understandable, although I would
> prefer to get the documentation for the chipset and not use Linux as =
the
> single source of information.
> What's with the licensing in this case by the way?

Copying ideas and facts: no problem.
Copying code: you must adhere to the license if you copied enough to be =
covered under copyright law....  It's complicated and best avoided.




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