Note: Atheros ethernet part of compat-wireless too

[Luis R. Rodriguez]

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 10:16 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 9:26 AM, Tony Espy <espy at canonical.com> wrote:
>> Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>>>
>>> I wanted to let you know I threw in the Atheros ethernet drivers as
>>> part of compat-wireless.
>>
>> Luis --
>>
>> Does this include support for the Atheros AR8152 PCI-E fast ethernet
>> adapter?  Also, what's the lead time for this to land in a "stable" release?
>
> Figured I'd give you the heads up that the AR8152 is not supported
> upstream yet. I just got a tarball of the driver that supports this
> and AR8151. Here's our current upstream support status table:
>
> Driver Model-name             vendor:device    Type
> atl1c  AR8131                 1969:1063        Gigabit Ethernet
> atl1c  AR8132                 1969:1062        Fast Ethernet
> atl1   L1                     1969:1048        Gigabit Ethernet
> atl2   L2                     1969:2048        Fast Ethernet
> atl1e  AR8121/AR8113/AR8114   1969:1026        Gigabit/Fast Ethernet(driver
>                                               check one internal register to
>                                               see if support gigabit)
> atl1c  AR8151(v1.0)           1969:1073        Gigabit Ethernet(not support
>                                               in kernel yet)
> atl1c  AR8152(v1.1)           1969:2060        Fast Ethernet(not support
>                                               in kernel yet)
> atl1c  AR8152(v2.0)           1969:2062        Fast Ethernet(not support
>                                               in kernel yet)
>
> I just updated the PCI ID database accordingly. The driver patches for
> atl1c might be easy, will take a quick look. FWIW the tarball I will
> be looking at in a few moments is
>
> http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mcgrof/ethernet/AR81Family-linux-v1.0.1.6.tar.bz2

OK I got some patch now, will send an RFT.

  Luis