Porting the OpenBSD free Atheros HAL

[Rob Deker]

mark at markdnet.demon.co.uk wrote:

>deker at slackdot.org wrote:
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>>You're right, it does. However, myself and collegue recently presented 
>>our work in raw Atheros raw frame injection at ToorCon based on the 
>>Atheros HAL and Sam's driver/HAL wrapper. If you're familliar with these 
>>cards and their current status in the open-source world, you'll know 
>>that the only method of using them relies solely on the binary-only HAL 
>>provided by Atheros that Sam Leffler was kind enough to wrap in a 
>>FreeBSD driver shell. 
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>Would this give us AMD64 support for atheros cards? 
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It's possible. As the alternative is source, it very well may compile 
for AMD64. If you've got an AMD64 box available to put OpenBSD-current 
on, give it a shot and let us know! I just don't have any 64-bit 
machines at my place that aren't Alphas :)

-d