[Prism54-users] Re: [Prism54-devel] Prism54 development update
Feyd
feyd at seznam.cz
Sat Sep 10 09:35:00 UTC 2005
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
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