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

[Garrett D'Amore]

Ritesh Sood wrote:
> 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,
>   

The HAL sources are owned by Sam Leffler and escrowed at Atheros.  Only
Sam can do a build.

There is a sparcv9 HAL, but it isn't compatible with Solaris; he needs
to build with a custom gcc apparently.

I'm working to get this resolved, but it costs money, and the bean
counters have tightened purse strings.  Once the purse strings ease up,
I'll get a SPARCv9 HAL and associated Makefiles committed.

    -- Garrett
> cheers,
> ritesh
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