From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 4 13:38:22 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAC4E106564A for ; Sat, 4 Apr 2009 13:38:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from onemda@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ew0-f171.google.com (mail-ew0-f171.google.com [209.85.219.171]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E5618FC15 for ; Sat, 4 Apr 2009 13:38:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from onemda@gmail.com) Received: by ewy19 with SMTP id 19so1253911ewy.43 for ; Sat, 04 Apr 2009 06:38:20 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=SZDqU74MkI6k43ro4hqxpxtva4w3PjLfpK9Ei6QBP4M=; b=xh53ROyTracTGRthdYxfhivAvwl6D5Nh7gWxjsH/6vypEMGCRegcWe2CsupwfjkSU/ W/6rKtf2Z7kdTywqCqnSgrT3i6PGpL0aq8733OyWh2ncbjAbxq59NpWHos5tUVpTwJW4 yQqaED6hWlUhWSbnfESf+ZWNbFeUqtZUufqXI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=Sd6VlFfrzEP3BVUXClaDRWnUL1tgtVXQgV9YvV6dUp2+13LMjaH0lKO2lXDsLzL9NK IORviOWijs0fU1px0oJopPWVRDVMWrWuFgjDcY0C5CGeZdxIK6H7MmkqoaUbJ9Baf/DY h9yT0cMnuSHb1XTaS4KKVYRzcUJHzVkp/MaKk= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.210.38.5 with SMTP id l5mr1353961ebl.73.1238852300678; Sat, 04 Apr 2009 06:38:20 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <49D752D2.4090902@gmail.com> References: <49D752D2.4090902@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 15:38:20 +0200 Message-ID: <3a142e750904040638p5714282cwab08835d00ea4dde@mail.gmail.com> From: "Paul B. Mahol" To: michael Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rt2870 wireless chipset X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 04 Apr 2009 13:38:23 -0000 On 4/4/09, michael wrote: > is this chip or will this chip be covered under the rum module? if it > has not already been started on, i've noticed from looking at the ralink > opensource driver that it seems be structured nearly identical to the > rt73 driver. eg: its used in the version 3 of the linksys WUSB54GC > compact wireless adapter. version 1 was the rt73 which already works > with the rum module. what i'm asking is, since the two linux drivers > seem nearly identical; would it be very difficult for me to copy the rum > driver source to another directory and make the changes evident in the > linux driver(mainly dealing with loading the rt2870 firmware file) in > the copied rum driver? What about non evident things :-), Just go ahead, but note that if you make some terrible mistake that you can say goodbye to chip. -- Paul