[laptop-discuss] Re: Building ath for sparc without a complete ON build

[Ritesh Sood]

On 9/10/06, peter.memishian at sun.com <peter.memishian at sun.com> wrote:


    We don't currently build ath on SPARC, which is why you cannot find a
    Makefile.  More importantly, the object-file-only[1] HAL layer is only
    provided for x86 and x64 at this point (common/io/ath/hal_*.o.uu).
    I think it would be possible to provide it for SPARC and SPARCv9,
    but no one has done the necessary work.

    [1] My understanding is that the HAL source is owned by Atheros and its
        terms do not enable redistribution -- hence the cursed uuencoded
        object files in the source tree.

    --
    meem

I suspected the  issue with the x86 HAL library, so I checked on  madWIFI, and they do mention SPARC as one of the archs supported in general. I couldn't tell however if they have released this particular binary, mainly because I don't know where to look for it.

Any further help is greatly appreciated,

cheers,
ritesh
 
 
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