Re: Re: [Prism54-devel] Prism54 development update
Denis Vlasenko <[email protected]> Thu, 8 Sep 2005 17:28:01 +0300
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.drivers.prism54.user,gmane.linux.drivers.prism54.devel |
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> > Do you seriously expect using CPU for sending 10 beacons per second > > will even be visible in you favorite system load meter? > > Maybe on 100MHz PentiumI it (barely) will be, but on anything > > more sane it would not. > > > > After all, people had difficulties detecting impact of HZ=1000 > > versus HZ=100, and that's nearly thousand additional interrupts > > per second. Here we talk about tens of interrupts per sec. > > OK, perhaps it will note make much difference on an (modern) laptop, but > there are also users running prism54 on an embedded device. > > Also it would be nice to run prism54 as AP without additional software, > but only if it runs as a full-featured ap and not not some mixture of > either limited firmware ap or full featured software ap. In this case I > think a software ap only would be the only good solution. > > Perhaps it also depends on the development of the ieee80211 stack now in > next mainline kernel and what things can/must be done to integrate > prism54 with this stack the best way. But I still think that at least > everything, that can be done in firmware without any feature loss or > limit should be done in firmware. s/firmware/firmwares of prism54,acx,atheros,ralink,etc,etc/ It's bug^Wcode duplication. > Other things will surely need additional discussion how far it makes > sense or not to integrate them in the firmware, but that's too far away > at the moment to discuss it the way it should be. -- vda