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

[Casper.Dik at Sun.COM]

>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 SPA
RC as one of the archs supported in general. I couldn't tell however if they have released this par
ticular binary, mainly because I don't know where to look for it.
>
>Any further help is greatly appreciated,


I've found SPARC binaries before in the madwifi tar ball; look for the .uu
files which contain the binary blobs.

Casper