Re: [Madwifi-devel] [ath5k-devel] Sam Leffler releases HAL source

[Maxim L. <max...@gm...>]

On Sat, 2008-11-29 at 09:48 +0100, Michael Renzmann wrote:
> Hi all.
> 
> Interesting news (based on an announcement that Sam sent out):
> 
> === cut ===
> Sam Leffler, maintainer of the binary HAL that is also used in MadWifi
> releases, has released the source code for his HAL variant under ISC
> license. It is available through a Subversion repository [1] (web
> interface at [2]), which is also be used actively for development and
> further improvements.
> 
> In his announcement, Sam states:
> 
> "Coincident with the release of this code I have concluded my agreement
> with Atheros whereby I had access to information about their devices.
> This means that in the future all fixes, updates for new chips, etc. will
> need to be a community effort. Atheros states the Linux platform will be
> the reference public code base so folks wanting to add support for other
> platforms will have to scrape the information from there."
> 
> "Linux platform" refers to ath5k and ath9k. Interested parties are advised
> to attend the ath5k-devel [3] and ath9k-devel [4] mailing lists. These
> lists may be also used to ask general questions about the chipsets
> supported by the respective drivers.
> 
> [1] svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/projects/ath_hal
> [2] http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base/projects/ath_hal/
> [3] https://lists.ath5k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath5k-devel
> [4] https://lists.ath9k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath9k-devel
> === cut ===
> 
> Bye, Mike
> 
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Does this sound great to you?
So now whole source of HAL is open, not just legacy one.

Very nice to hear,

Maxim Levitsky