{"id":100,"date":"2006-04-28T15:45:29","date_gmt":"2006-04-28T15:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/archives\/2006\/04\/atheros-to-acquire-zydas\/"},"modified":"2006-05-03T21:07:36","modified_gmt":"2006-05-03T21:07:36","slug":"atheros-to-acquire-zydas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/archives\/2006\/04\/atheros-to-acquire-zydas\/","title":{"rendered":"Atheros to acquire ZyDAS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.atheros.com\/news\/ZyDAS.html\">This<\/a> is some interesting news.<\/p>\n<p>My first thoughts were if and how this would affect ZyDAS&#8217; current Linux driver maintenance efforts, which have enabled us to write a <a href=\"http:\/\/zd1211.ath.cx\/wiki\/DriverRewrite\">nicer driver<\/a> quickly approaching kernel inclusion.<\/p>\n<p>Then I remembered about the Atheros range of PCI wifi hardware which is supported by the <a href=\"http:\/\/madwifi.org\/\">madwifi<\/a> driver, which was originally written by Atheros and released to the community. So hopefully this means good things for vendor communication.<\/p>\n<p>Edit: I&#8217;ve just been informed that madwifi contains a binary blob, i.e. a large <a href=\"http:\/\/madwifi.org\/wiki\/HAL\">closed-source element<\/a> of the driver. Maybe this is more of a mixed message&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is some interesting news. My first thoughts were if and how this would affect ZyDAS&#8217; current Linux driver maintenance efforts, which have enabled us to write a nicer driver quickly approaching kernel inclusion. Then I remembered about the Atheros range of PCI wifi hardware which is supported by the madwifi driver, which was originally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gentoo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}