John W. Linville wrote:
On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 11:58:17AM -0800, Ben Greear wrote:
David Hollis wrote:
I don't know the details of the Atheros chip to
know if it might be possible to generate a firmware that users would
have to install in /lib/firmware and let the driver load it up. If so,
that would be the answer.
The HAL is not real firmware..just normal kernel code. I wonder if you
could get around this by using a sort of CPU emulator and/or virtual machine
and load the HAL 'firmware' into that?
<brainstorm>
Any chance the driver could be rearchitected w/ the HAL functionality
moved into a userland helper? I haven't even looked at the driver
to see if this could be practical...?
</brainstorm>
It very well may be too time sensitive and it ends up fiddling with
the NICs registers and such, which I'm not sure you can do through
user-space. Might be worth asking some of the madwifi folks
that know more though..
Ben
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