It is used by ath9k (Linux) and athn (OpenBSD) to provide wireless
services.
+What licence is this covered by?
+--------------------------------
+
+The Qualcomm Atheros owned code is under the ClearBSD licence.
+
+The NOTICES.TXT file contains copyright notices for software which
+this firmware release leverages.
+
+There is some code that is based off of work done under contract
+but is owned by Qualcomm Atheros; the original copyright statements
+from that work are in NOTICES.TXT.
+
+The Tensilica code (xtos/xtensa) is distributed with permission from
+Tensilica, Inc., under the MIT licence.
+
+There are three ECOS source files distributed under the terms of
+the GPLv2, with a caveat that linking or using the source files does
+not bring the rest of the binary under the GPLv2. Please read the
+ECOS caveats in more detail.
+
Ok, what are those NICs?
------------------------
The AR7010 is a USB/PCIe SoC with onboard RAM, ROM and flash.
It comes with an external wireless chip connected via PCIe - typically
-an AR9280 or AR9285.
+an AR9280 or AR9287.
The AR9271 is a USB/Wifi SoC with onboad RAM, ROM, flash and the
actual wireless chip. The wireless core is an off-shoot of the AR9285.
You're in for a treat.
+* Install the cmake build tool (http://www.cmake.org/).
+ Major distributions have packages for this.
+
+* For FreeBSD - install gmake and wget.
+
* You first have to build the toolchain.
* Linux:
* Linux:
- $ ./build
+ $ make -C target_firmware
* FreeBSD:
- edit the build script, change make to gmake, and then
-
- $ ./build
+ $ gmake -C target_firmware
You will end up with two .fw files - one for the AR7010 and one for
-the AR9271.
+the AR9271 in the target_firmware directory.
+
+You can clean the firmware build (when you wish to force a rebuild)
+by doing:
+
+ * Linux:
+
+ $ make -C target_firmware clean
+
+ * FreeBSD:
+ $ gmake -C target_firmware clean
Then what?
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