azurewave / marvell ?

[Peter Wippich]

Hi, 

the Azurewave module is based on the Marvel 8686. They just make modules, 
not chips. 

Cheers,

Peter

On Wed, 13 Jan 2010, Christopher Friedt wrote:

> Hi folks,
> 
> I'm porting Linux to a new pxa-based device with _partial_
> manufacturer support. I have the schematics, but there are still
> several components for which I'm lacking documentation. From what the
> manufacturer has told me, it uses a marvell 8686 gspi module for wifi.
> The device ships with wince and in wince it says that the module is an
> azurewave chip. The mac address is prefixed with 00:15:AF, which also
> suggests its an azurewave module [1].
> 
> Should I believe the manufacturer or should I believe the mac registry [1] ?
> 
> Is it possible that azurewave has only licensed ip from marvell, and
> that this device is actually a marvell chip sold by a different
> company ?
> 
> Is it possible that the wince driver simply adds in a bit of extra
> cruft to work with azurewave code as well ?
> 
> Is there anyone else in the linux-wireless world who is working with
> azurewave technology?
> 
> 
> I'm getting to the point where I'm considering using haret to monitor
> all traffic on the spi bus to write a driver for myself, but I thought
> that I would seek the community's input first (it would be nice if the
> handheld manufacturer could be of more help, but their management
> overhead seems to slow down the entire process).
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Chris
> 
> [1] http://www.coffer.com/mac_find/?string=0015af
> 
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