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Re: Atheros HAL opensourced



On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 12:57:20AM -0500, Arnaud Lacombe wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> 
> It seems that the HAL has been opensourced with a BSD compatible
> licence[1]. It seems to include support for recent chipset.
> 
> Is anyone willing to port it ?

I've started to look at it.  It's not a terribly complicated task,
although if_ath.c probably needs some changes to adapt to it.  I might
start with a copy of if_ath.c so that the two HALs can live in the tree
so that it can be more thoroughly tested before we ditch the horrendous
blob for good.

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