Re: CFT: new ath hal



On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 11:28 -0800, Sam Leffler wrote:
I've placed a new hal out for testing. I'd like to commit it after more
folks work with it so feedback would be helpful.

http://people.freebsd.org/~sam/ath_hal-20061205.tgz

There are numerous small bugs fixed in this version but the main change
is a split of the descriptor state so that s/w state can be placed in
cached memory when h/w state is in uncached memory. This results in
noticeable performance gains on certain architectures.

To use this hal you must patch the driver and rate control modules with
this:

http://people.freebsd.org/~sam/ath-20061205.patch

Not sure if the patch will apply cleanly to RELENG_6.

Sam
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Works here (ThinkPad X60):

ath_hal: 0.9.20.3 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413,
RF5413)
ath0: <Atheros 5212> mem 0xedf00000-0xedf0ffff irq 17 at device 0.0 on
pci3
ath0: using obsoleted if_watchdog interface
ath0: Ethernet address: 00:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
ath0: mac 10.3 phy 6.1 radio 10.2


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