HAL source code vs binary code

[Erik Trulsson]

On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 08:04:51PM +0400, Alex Keda wrote:
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/9/26/321
> whether there are plans to include source code HAL in FreeBSD?
> It is very difficult to update 2 MB binary files ..

Be aware that the binary HAL included in FreeBSD (and also used by the Linux
Madwifi driver) is not identical to the HAL Atheros just released the source
code for. (see http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/9/26/344 )

I am quite sure it would be possible to change the ath driver in FreeBSD to
use this open HAL instead, but it would almost certainly require a
non-trivial amount of work, and you might lose whatever enhancements and
bug-fixes is available in the binary HAL compared to the released one.






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