1. 02 Sep, 2010 1 commit
    • Vipin Mehta's avatar
      staging: add ath6kl driver for AR6003 chip · 30295c89
      Vipin Mehta authored
      AR6003 is a single stream, SDIO based 802.11 chipset from
      Atheros optimized for mobile and embedded devices. ath6kl is a
      cfg80211 driver for AR6003 and supports both the station and
      AP mode of operation.
      
      Station mode supports 802.11 a/b/g/n with HT20 on 2.4/5GHz and
      HT40 only on 5GHz. Some of the other features include WPA/WPA2,
      WPS, WMM, WMM-PS, and BT coexistence. AP mode can be operated
      only in b/g mode with support for a subset of features mentioned
      above.
      
      The driver supports cfg80211 but comes with its own set of
      wext ioctls which have historically supported some of our
      customers with features like BT 3.0 and AP mode of operation.
      
      For further details, please refer to:
      
      http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath6kl
      
      The driver requires firmware that runs on the chip's network
      processor. The majority of it is stored in ROM. The binaries
      that are downloaded and executed from RAM are as follows:
      
      1) Patch against the code in ROM for bug fixes and feature
         enhancements.
      2) Code to copy the data from the OTP region of the memory
         into RAM.
      3) Calibration file carrying board specific data.
      
      The above files need to be present in the directory
      '/lib/firmware/ath6k/AR6003/hw2.0/' for the driver to initialize
      the chip upon enumeration. The files can be downloaded from the
      link specified at the following location:
      
      http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath6kl#Download
      
      This driver is only provided in the interim while we work on
      the mac80211 replacement, ath6k. Once the mac80211 driver
      achieves feature parity with the ath6kl driver, the ath6kl will
      be deprecated and removed from staging.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarVipin Mehta <vmehta@atheros.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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