[U-Boot] mini-pci wireless driver

[Lance Zhang]

Hi Jean,

Do you know any common methods to port a Linux driver to a u boot driver?
Will you rewrite all the driver codes? Or just make a function mapping?

I think it is terrible to write a wireless network card driver for uboot.

In uboot I need to implement MLME which contains "Authenticate ,Deauthenticate,Associate,Disassociate,Reassociate,Beacon,Probe ". and in Linux driver, the source code packet contains more than 10K lines.

Appreciated if anyone can give me further direction.

Thanks
Lance

-----Original Message-----
From: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD [mailto:plagnioj at jcrosoft.com] 
Sent: 2008年11月5日 14:45
To: Lance Zhang
Cc: u-boot at lists.denx.de
Subject: Re: [U-Boot] mini-pci wireless driver

On 14:41 Tue 04 Nov     , Lance Zhang wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>  
> 
> I am going to write a mini-pci driver (GIGABYTE MiniPCI Wireless
> Adapter: GN-WI01GS) for u-boot(sc520),
> 
> Currently, I have Linux driver source code (downloaded from
> http://web.ralinktech.com/ralink/Home/Support/Linux.html  RT61
> <http://www.ralinktech.com.tw/data/drivers/2008_0506_RT73_Linux_STA_Drv1
> .1.0.1.tar.bz2> ), 
> 
> Anyone knows how I can port the Linux driver to u-boot driver
> 
>  
> 
> Appreciate it if someone can give me some links/hints...
> 
>  
I've work on a similar port for on other Ralink Chip

I will the common wireless port

I've separate the driver in 2 part:
1) the net interface as any other network driver

2) a wireless tools implementation (generic) currently OPEN/WEP and hardware
WPA only

3) a wireless implementation for the chip

Best Regards,
J.