From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 13 23:20:34 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2BAE16A409 for ; Sun, 13 May 2007 23:20:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from j_guojun@lbl.gov) Received: from smtp109.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com (smtp109.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.198.208]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9B85713C468 for ; Sun, 13 May 2007 23:20:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from j_guojun@lbl.gov) Received: (qmail 42268 invoked from network); 13 May 2007 22:53:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.9.8?) (jinmtb@sbcglobal.net@75.37.2.20 with plain) by smtp109.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; 13 May 2007 22:53:54 -0000 X-YMail-OSG: ilLHLzEVM1m95oeGkl4LjwCGsRBlxMxyWEAcDR8LDBI_6Ql3p9fXQ5d3eRdtt789TRt0Tv_rsw-- Message-ID: <464795EB.1000004@lbl.gov> Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 15:49:15 -0700 From: Jin Guojun User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20060414 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sam Leffler References: <775615123.20070513194957@serebryakov.spb.ru> <464754C6.6050605@errno.com> <116377599.20070513223803@serebryakov.spb.ru> <46479399.7030702@errno.com> In-Reply-To: <46479399.7030702@errno.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Lev Serebryakov , freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AR5513 chipset (DLink DWL-G520M) support in ath(4)? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 23:20:34 -0000 Sam Leffler wrote: >Lev Serebryakov wrote: > > >>Hello Sam, >> >>Sunday, May 13, 2007, 10:11:18 PM, you wrote: >> >> >> >>>>Hello All, >>>> >>>> Is here any work to support newest Atheros chipsets, AR5513, for >>>>example, in ath(4)? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>SL> This is a MIPS-based SoC. Supporting it requires a lot more than just >>SL> ath changes. >> Oops. Year ot two and every chip and card in PC will have its own OS -- GPU, network, sound, etc :) >> There is not documentation/firmware form Atheros, of course? >> >> > >For Atheros SoC = GPU + Wireless h/w. The wireless h/w is not exposed >via PCI bus but sits on an internal bus and is controlled by the GPU >which runs a complete OS like linux or netbsd (and hopefully some day >freebsd). The ath driver just needs the appropriate bus shim to work >and support has been available for a while. > > > >> >> I suppose, that 802.11n draft chipsets are SoCs too? >> >> >> > >The 5416 and 5418 are stock PCI (-express) parts that require the host >to handle much of the 11n protocol. I've given out test hal's that >support these parts (in legacy mode) for many months. > > I was trying to add 5513, 5416/5418 in FreeBSD 6.2 to support these chips but the hal is distributed in binary mode, and I do not have time to rewite whole thing from scratch. That is cool. Where can I get the ATH hal for testing? I have all types of Atheros mini-PCI cards and I can test them on FreeBSD 6.2 (only 6.2-R). -Jin