Re: [Madwifi-devel] Re: madwifi licensing vs kernel
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From: Leszek O. <les...@os...> - 2006-02-22 20:46:08
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I believe this can be done in theory but in practice by the time one finishes doing the tests properly the chipset they're probing will be long time phased out and they'll be a couple of years older. But again, *in theory* this can be done, yes, why not. Regards, Leszek Olszewski Thorsten von Eicken wrote: > Leszek Olszewski wrote: >> Isn't the chipset specification copyrighted by Atheros? >> >> You're not reversing the silicon, are you? > You could write a program that exercises all the HAL functionality and > hook up a PCI bus analyzer to see how the HAL functions "translate" into > bus transactions. From that you could write a spec sheet for the chipset > that you toss over the wall to the implementation team. > > I'm not suggesting someone do this... > Thorsten > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log > files > for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes > searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Madwifi-devel mailing list > Mad...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/madwifi-devel > > |