[maemo-developers] stlc45xx: open source WLAN driver for N800 and N810

[From: Kalle Valo]

"ext Andrew Barr" <andrew.james.barr at gmail.com> writes:

> Kalle Valo <kalle.valo <at> nokia.com> writes:
>
>> I recommend anyone interested about the project joining
>> stlc45xx-devel. Unfortunately the garage project is closed currently,
>> but it will be opened as soon as possible.

The garage project is open now, or at least it should be. Please let
me know if there are problems.

> Does this mean we cannot download the source code 

I put the source code temporarily to the webpage but in the future all
releases are available from the project page:

https://garage.maemo.org/frs/?group_id=774

> or does this mean that joining the mailing list and/or the garage
> project is closed?

They should work now as the garage project is open.

> Also, since the tablets are currently using a 2.6.21 kernel, what
> is the recommended source tree (e.g. linux-omap) and/or version 
> to upgrade so we can test the driver?

I used stlc45xx 0.1.3 against this commit from linux-omap:

commit de1121fdb899f762b9e717f44eaf3fae7c00cd3e
Author: Daniel Stone <daniel.stone at nokia.com>
Date:   Wed Aug 27 04:31:59 2008 +0300

    ARM: OMAP2: Fix definition of SGX clock register bits

> Also, if you are free to answer this question, what is the 
> "officiality" of this project? Is this done with the blessing
> of Conexant? Does anyone have access to documentation or is 
> this all done by reverse engineering?

Everything is fully legal and official, no reverse engineering were
done. This all was made possible by good co-operation with ST NXP
Wireless.

As someone said, the homepage constains a bit more information, like
the link to the firmware documentation. I'll make better webpage next
week.

-- 
Kalle Valo