RFT: if_ath HAL refactoring

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> Message:  9
> Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 01:04:47 +0800
> From: Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org>
> Subject: Re: RFT:  if_ath HAL refactoring
> To: Brandon Weisz <lists at avioc.org>
> Cc: freebsd-current at freebsd.org
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> On 19 September 2010 01:01, Adrian Chadd  <adrian at freebsd.org> wrote:
> >>  Are there plans for AR9287 support?  Unfortunately that is the only ath  
>card
> >> I have to test with at the moment.
> >
> > At some  point, yes.
> >
> > There's a lot of code missing in our driver for  ar92xx series chips.
> > I'd rather get the existing stuff updated and  tidied up before I look
> > at importing support for others. I'd also like  to somehow acquire some
> > hardware to test it against - I only have (very)  legacy (pre AR5416),
> > AR5416, AR9160 and AR2427 chips. I don't yet have  anything with an
> > AR9280/9285 in it.
> 
> And before anyone asks - no,  I won't be looking at the USB NICs, sorry.  :-)
> 

Just in case anyone wonders, I've added 11n support to run(4) (USB NIC).
http://gitorious.org/run/run/trees/11n_beta2

It still has some issues,
* doesn't work well with atheros chips
* HT + AP + bridge = Tx may stall (seems OK with nat)
So, use it at your own discretion.

> 
> Adrian
> 
> 
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