[Prism54-users] Re: [Prism54-devel] Prism54 development update

[Feyd]

On Fri, 09 Sep 2005 16:09:07 +0200 (CEST)
Sebastien <sebastien.bourdeauducq at gmail.com> wrote:

> > But I still think that at least
> > everything, that can be done in firmware without any feature loss or
> > limit should be done in firmware.
> 
> Yes - don't waste this 30MHz ARM946E that every ISL38xx embeds.
> Moreover, now that GCC can compile a firmware, it won't be more complicated to 
> implement something in firmware than it is in the host, as far as no 
> proprietary hardware acceleration is involved (ie. RC4/AES).

The ieee80211 stack in host will receive much more testing, I would prefer
a very simple and robust firmware. It should be no problem to develop both,
as the simple would likely be a subset of the featurefull.

Feyd