September 2009
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3945 HAL updates & comparison with 2200
It’s about time I consolidated the previous status updates into a blog entry of its own for those not following the facebook page.
Around 20% of the HAL is coded by now. Lots of support functions were first written, followed by code for uploading firmware and microcode to the card. A particularly nasty bug with VoodooWireless was also tracked down and fixed which was causing kernel panics...
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Facebook page and smaller updates!
Many people asked me to create twitter account so they could follow up-to-the-minute progress. So I created a facebook page instead because my twitter account is for personal use :P
The FB page offers more features like photo albums and discussion in addition to twitter-like short updates. Feel free to subscribe to it. This blog will contain only more major updates.
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Hell hath begun
Just got done with creating the 3945 HAL template based on VoodooWireless. There is barely any hardware-specific code in it right now, but the kext project and the subclassed functions are there with a few basic (getHardwareInfo() etc.) functions implemented. Firmware is converted. From here on, it’s a lot of mechanical work with a little bit of careful thinking and added technique, to...