general question about AR7010 arch.

Adrian Chadd adrian at freebsd.org
Mon Apr 1 14:15:50 EDT 2013


Hi,

On 1 April 2013 10:05, Christopher Waid <chris at thinkpenguin.com> wrote:

> I'd like to see the ath3k firmware for the AR3011/AR3012 released more
> than the firmware for the AR5523 chipset. The ath3k supports USB bluetooth
> and there are no mini pcie combo cards with a free wireless/bluetooth
> chipset combination at the moment. This chipset is a USB chipset that
> shows up as a USB device on the mini pcie card. I forget what its called
> although newer systems USB support through the mini pcie slot.

The AR5523 firmware is (somewhat) easier  as a concept to open up
because it really is an already-opensourced CPU core with an
already-opensourced wifi chip (AR5212) and some USB device which I
_think_ is related to what's in subsequent SoCs.

The bluetooth firmware is a completely different business unit. I'd
have to go digging to find out all the relevant software/documentation
and see what concerns people have before I even attempt that.

So, maybe after I've finished opening up the last couple things I'm
doing at the moment.
Especially the older bluetooth chipset that we stopped shipping
firmware for for some odd reason.



Adrian



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