Porting the OpenBSD free Atheros HAL

Tue Nov 9 11:06:52 PST 2004

On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 10:35:29AM -0500, Rob Deker wrote:
> I was just wondering if anybody was working on porting the new 
> open-source Atheros HAL from OpenBSD to FreeBSD yet. If not I'm willing 
> to take a stab at it, but I don't want to duplicate efforts already 
> underway. If anybody is working on this already and could use any help, 
> etc. drop me a line and let me know.

I've been looking at this for DragonFly. The changes necessary to the
FreeBSD ath(4) because of different APIs are very few (2 or 3 functions).
Those can be easily done. I haven't tried to run it yet, because I don't
have an 5210 and the newer 5211 and 5212 or not yet supported.

Joerg