[Sdio-linux-devel] Firmware

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I've looked though the bulletin for the AR6001, which shows the device
having an "Integrated RISC processor". Presumably this processor must
run some firmware. Is the firmware contained in the onboard flash? I
can't seem to find anywhere in the ar6000_wlan patch which downloads
firmware into the device. The bulletin also seems to indicate the
firmware is based around eCos. I know this has a BSD-type licence, but
is the source available at all? The bulletin seems to imply it is.

Am I right in thinking this driver is completely open source? It doesn't
need a binary HAL like the AR500x drivers do?

I am hoping this could be interfaced to a Frescale i.MX31 application
processor. I've not even started looking at how compatible the MX31's
SDIO kernel module is to this SDIO stack. I'm hoping that I could port
this stack to use the MX31's SDIO interface. If I'm honest, I'm less
than clueless at the moment as I have only just started looking into
this. Any information you could give me would be greatly appreciated.



Cheers,

Tom