Id love to try this out but I'll admit I have no clue about what I need =
to
do and where. I've pulled the madwifi stuff and it seems they actually =
get a
lot of stuff from *BSD including us.=20

- John Schieferle Uhlenbrock



-----Original Message-----
From: current-users-owner@netbsd.org =
[mailto:current-users-owner@netbsd.org]
On Behalf Of Greg Troxel
Sent: Freitag, 20. Februar 2004 16:06
To: Sam Leffler
Cc: Greg Troxel; current-users@netbsd.org; John Schieferle Uhlenbrock
Subject: Re: Atheros - Status?=20


  There's actually support for many non-x86 architectures; look on=20
  sourceforge (the madwifi project).

I didn't realize that (none of the other archs are in the netbsd tree =
under
src/contrib/sys/arch/*/dev). The version in netbsd is labeled =
'12-dec-2003',
and I suppose that should get updated to the 2004-01-12 version.

For anyone who is inclined to try the sourceforge versions, here's the =
cheat
sheet for getting the bits quickly:

$ cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/madwifi login $ =
cvs
-d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/madwifi co madwifi $ =
cd
madwifi/hal/linux && ls *.uu
arm9-le-thumb-elf.hal.o.uu              powerpc-be-eabi.hal.o.uu
i386-elf.hal.o.uu                       powerpc-le-eabi.hal.o.uu
mipsisa32-be-elf.hal.o.uu               xscale-be-elf.hal.o.uu
mipsisa32-le-elf.hal.o.uu

It would be nice if 'ident' or something on the .o got a revision number =
and
date.  I tried strings and ident and wasn't able to get the build date.
11-dec-03 version which is labelled 0.9.6.11. But, it seems the linux =
hals
and the freebsd hal that is used in netbsd are different:

netbsd:

athhal-elf.o: ELF 32-bit LSB relocatable, Intel 80386, version 1 =
(FreeBSD),
not stripped
text    data    bss     dec     hex     filename
131435  4260    432     136127  213bf   athhal-elf.o

sourceforge after uudecode:
hal.o: ELF 32-bit LSB relocatable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), not
stripped

sourceforge after cvs up -r 1.1.1.5 i386-elf.hal.o.uu and uudecode
hal.o: ELF 32-bit LSB relocatable, Intel 80386, version 1 (FreeBSD), not
stripped
text    data    bss     dec     hex     filename
102210  4280    432     106922  1a1aa   hal.o

Sorry if I'm being a pain, but I'm obviously missing something about how =
the
hal binaries work.  I think they are os indedepent (depending only on
processor/endian and exec format), so I'm guessing the ELF system name =
is
just where they were compiled.  But I was not able to tie the bits in =
NetBSD
cvs back to what I think is the corresponding version in madwifi cvs.

    Greg