Dreamplug, BOOTP, NFS root, DHCP

[Warner Losh]

On Mar 29, 2013, at 9:37 AM, Adrian Chadd wrote:

> On 29 March 2013 07:39, Ian Lepore <ian at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Good to hear you're up and running again.
>> 
>> The thing we most need for dreamplug is a wifi driver.  Unfortunately
>> there are two layers of pain in getting there... a driver for the device
>> itself, and a complete reworking of our MMC/SD support since the wifi
>> part apparently uses SDIO and we don't have good support for that right
>> now.
>> 
> 
> Yeah, the SDIO layer stuff is a pre-requisite. Even for non-ARM. The
> Atheros AR6k chips (almost) all use SDIO and our SDIO code just doesn't cut
> it.
> 
> I'd be much happier (and try porting ath6kl to FreeBSD!) if the SDIO side
> of things was better.
> 
> Unfortunately I can't touch the wifi part of it. :-(

Is there good docs these days for chipsets that use SDIO? I tried to do a sdio stack a while ago, but found I couldn't write drivers for the available hardware due to lack of docs...

Warner