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

[Feyd]

On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 15:24:07 +0200
Rainer Weikusat <rainer.weikusat at sncag.com> wrote:

> Eh ... are you aware of the fact that a Linux-driver that allows
> control of a radio fully from the host will likely be illegal just
> about everywhere?

I don't think so, at least in Czech Republic (and probably most Europe)
it would certainly not.

> > This may not be the right thing to do in the long term,
>
> This depends. If you are hardware vendor looking to increase your
> margins, you want Win-modems, GDI-printers and 'SoftMAC' 802.11,
> because the hardware becomes cheaper to produce if you offload
> functionality to the host CPU. I am using this device (fullmac) in an
> embedded setting and I do not want to not use this 30 Mhz CPU because
> my host CPU has only 200 Mhz and should run application code and not
> hardware emulation code.

Unless you can offload expensive operations like encryption, the
difference will be close to zero.

Feyd