AR5513 chipset (DLink DWL-G520M) support in ath(4)?

[Jin Guojun]

Sam Leffler wrote:

>Lev Serebryakov wrote:
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>>Hello Sam,
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>>Sunday, May 13, 2007, 10:11:18 PM, you wrote:
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>>>>Hello All,
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>>>>  Is here any work to support newest Atheros chipsets, AR5513, for
>>>>example,  in ath(4)?
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>>SL> This is a MIPS-based SoC.  Supporting it requires a lot more than just
>>SL> ath changes.
>>  Oops. Year ot two and every chip and card in PC will have its own OS -- GPU, network, sound, etc :)
>>  There is not documentation/firmware form Atheros, of course?
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>For Atheros SoC = GPU + Wireless h/w.  The wireless h/w is not exposed
>via PCI bus but sits on an internal bus and is controlled by the GPU
>which runs a complete OS like linux or netbsd (and hopefully some day
>freebsd).  The ath driver just needs the appropriate bus shim to work
>and support has been available for a while.
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>>  I suppose, that 802.11n draft chipsets are SoCs too?
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>The 5416 and 5418 are stock PCI (-express) parts that require the host
>to handle much of the 11n protocol.  I've given out test hal's that
>support these parts (in legacy mode) for many months.
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I was trying to add 5513, 5416/5418 in FreeBSD 6.2 to support these 
chips but the hal is distributed in
binary mode, and I do not have time to rewite whole thing  from scratch.

That is cool. Where can I get the ATH hal for testing? I have all types 
of Atheros mini-PCI cards and I can
test them on FreeBSD 6.2 (only 6.2-R).

-Jin