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Hi,

On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> wrote:
> The non-embedded atheros NICs (ie, not the ath6k series stuff) is all
> run by the host CPU. There's no firmware that runs on the NIC.
> This was why the HAL was binary for so long. Note it is no longer
> binary and hasn't been for a few years.
>
OOTH, AFAIK, Linux folks never used the binary HAL, and had it
working, but it was GPL licensed from the beginning.

 - Arnaud

> So I think we can ignore the whole "binary firmware" problem. There's
> working code for these NICs for one or more of NetBSD, OpenBSD and
> Linux.
> All we need are people with some time and motivation to get it all
> working on FreeBSD. I'll commit whatever stuff people come up with.
>
> (And in the meantime, I'll continue chipping away at 11n support in
> ath(4)/ath_hal(4).)
>
>
> Adrian
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