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Cc: "Marcos Biscaysaqu - ThePacific.net" <marcos@tpnet.co.nz>,
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Subject: Re: Atheros Open Hal
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Jona Joachim wrote:
> I started the discussion on advocacy@ some time ago but no committers
> shared their point of view.
> 

Here's what I suggest you do.  Take the OpenHAL source, write a FreeBSD
driver wrapper around it, test it, and then release it to others for
testing and comment.  At the very least your work will likely be made
into a port.

Scott