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[Adrian Chadd]

The non-embedded atheros NICs (ie, not the ath6k series stuff) is all
run by the host CPU. There's no firmware that runs on the NIC.
This was why the HAL was binary for so long. Note it is no longer
binary and hasn't been for a few years.

So I think we can ignore the whole "binary firmware" problem. There's
working code for these NICs for one or more of NetBSD, OpenBSD and
Linux.
All we need are people with some time and motivation to get it all
working on FreeBSD. I'll commit whatever stuff people come up with.

(And in the meantime, I'll continue chipping away at 11n support in
ath(4)/ath_hal(4).)


Adrian