Re: Help fixing wifi or ABI

David Young <[email protected]> Fri, 9 Apr 2010 15:44:45 -0500

Newsgroups	gmane.os.netbsd.ports.evbmips
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On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 10:42:42PM +0400, Jon Shadow wrote:
> Dear comunity,
> 
> I use ar2317 mips wisoc board and i got 2 problems:
> 
> netbsd-5 - ar2317 wlan doesn't work

IIRC, the MIPS kernel ABI changed in -5 with the SMP improvements,
however, -5 still uses the binary HAL, so there is an ABI mismatch.

> netbsd-current - ABI is broken(I suppose you know) and wifi is not
> working of course.

The ABI is broken?  Will you elaborate on that?  In -current, the HAL is
built from sources.

Dave

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