Re: Linux Wireless Mini-Summit -- Ottawa -- July 22, 2008

[Nicolas Pitre]

On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Dan Williams wrote:

> On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 18:15 +0200, Michael Buesch wrote:
> > On Thursday 10 July 2008 18:12:32 Stefanik GÃbor wrote:
> > > Some other topics which might be of interest/good to include:
> > > - New chipsets needing drivers (SiS 16x, Marvell, etc.)
> > 
> > I have no idea what to discuss about non-existing drivers, really.
> > Something like: "Do we need that driver? Everyone votes YES and is happy"?
> 
> Maybe during the week we could organize some hackfests to work on the
> Marvell/SiS/etc mac80211 drivers?  Everyone bring their favorite
> non-working Marvell 88w83xx card and we make mrv8k our bitch or
> something like that.

FYI...

Lennert Buytenhek and I are writing a GPL driver for mv8300 class of 
Marvell WIFI chips right now, present and future versions. This is 
Marvell work as we work for Marvell.  I have access to firmware sources, 
etc. but obviously cannot share them.

We both will be in Ottawa next week.


Nicolas