Re: For the love of God, is it even possible to make the Atheros ath.patch & updated HALactually work?

Daniel Dvorak wrote:

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>> Does anybody have even the slightest clue when this code may
>> actually make it into the kernel sources?
> 
> Yes, this question is a bit interesting. I do not understand why this new
> version of hal could not be committed to head, if the current is the
> "bleeding edge" of FreeBSD DEVELOPMENT and "This code has been in test for a
> while and should be fine to use but I will not commit it until I get
> feedback." said Sam L. on the 13th of December 2005.
> 
> But why ? If we have the CURRENT BRANCH for exact purpouses, at least I
> think it after reading the Handbook.
> 
> I think if Sam needs some board feedback, so current source tree is the
> perfect place, where is useful and where it could get the well feedback.
> 
> So actualy I do not know the answer to your question and I am glad to see
> your question here.

The hal+patch has a showstopper bug that I've been unable to resolve. 
Until that problem is resolved I won't commit the hal.  In the mean time 
I am considering splitting out some of the driver changes and committing 
those.  All the net80211 changes I was holding at the time I made the 
above comment have been committed to HEAD+RELENG_6.

> 
>>  Or better yet,
>> does the patch cleanly apply and compile for ANYBODY?  I
>> posted this on bsdforums.org and people there can't get it to
>> compile either..
> 
> I know about at least one man Jiri M., he is active in this mailling list
> too. And he succeed with compiling new hal in current and maybe in releng_6.
> The details he could tell you.

I posted recently that I would re-spin the ath patch and post mail when 
it was available.  I have yet to do that as I was hoping to resolve the 
bug and just commit everything to cvs.

Sorry folks are having problems.  My goal is to get this stuff into 6.1 
but it's looking tight.  I'm well aware that all/most new cards are 
using the latest chips that are not supported by the 0.9.14.9 hal.

	Sam