OLPC's XO-1.5 software plan.

[Bobby Powers]

On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Daniel Drake <dsd at laptop.org> wrote:
> 2009/5/16 Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com>:
>> See http://www.open80211s.org/ for more details. I believe its now
>> upstream and supports more chipsets than just the libertas and support
>> is now in the mac80211 in mainline kernel along with a number of
>> drivers.
>
> The XO wireless hardware is somewhat unusual and the driver doesn't
> use those kernel implementations (because the equivalent happens in
> the firmware/hardware). So any changes in this area would need
> firmware changes if not more.. the functionality/operation is not
> influenced by developments in that layer of the kernel.

The original announcement [1] mentioned that, at least initially, the
new wireless wouldn't support 802.11s, but that OLPC was 'exploring
options'.  Would mesh be something that could be added in the driver,
absent it being added to the firmware by marvell or a contractor?  I
don't know how any kind of generic 802.11s could interact with the
rest of the libertas wireless stack.

bobby


1 - http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2009-April/024127.html

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