On Wednesday 15 November 2006 04:10, John W. Linville wrote:
> It is my pleasure to announce that the SFLC [1] has assisted the ar5k
> developers in evaluating the development history of Reyk Floeter's
> OpenBSD reverse-engineered Atheros HAL, ar5k [2]. SFLC's assessment
> leads to the conclusion that free software developers should not be
> worried about using/extending ar5k or porting ar5k to other platforms.
>
> In the past there were serious questions raised and even dire warnings
> made about ar5k's copyright status. The purpose of this statement
> is to refute those claims and to publicly clarify ar5k's status
> to developers.
>
> SFLC has made independent inquiries with the OpenBSD team regarding the
> development history of ar5k source. The responses received provide
> a reasonable basis for SFLC to believe that the OpenBSD developers
> who worked on ar5k did not misappropriate code, and that the ar5k
> implementation is OpenBSD's original copyrighted work.
>
> This announcement should serve to remove the cloud which has prevented
> progress towards an in-kernel driver for Atheros hardware. This should
> be of particular interest to those involved with the DadWifi project [3].
>
> I'd like to take this opportunity to thank the folks at the SFLC for
> their hard work, and I'd also like to personally thank Luis Rodriguez
> for the role he played in coordinating contact between the SFLC and
> the community at large.
>
> Thanks!
>
> John
>
> [1] http://www.softwarefreedom.org/
> [2] http://team.vantronix.net/ar5k/
> [3] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-netdev&m=116113064513921&w=2
So, who is finally going to _DO_ the work?
Some of you know that I started an atheros driver at
http://bu3sch.de/ath/atheros.git/
It's not really a driver, yet, as nobody got to continue on the specification,
so I was stuck.
Now that it seems to be ok to use these openbsd sources, should I port
them to my driver framework?
I looked over the ar5k code and, well, I don't like it. ;)
I don't really like having a HAL. I'd rather prefer a "real" driver
without that HAL obfuscation.
--
Greetings Michael.
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