Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:17:36 +0100 | From | David Vrabel <> | Subject | New subsystems: Ultra-Wideband radio, Wireless USB and WiMedia LLC Protocol |
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I'm the maintainer of the Ultra-Wideband (UWB) radio, Certified Wireless USB (WUSB) and WiMedia LLC Protocol (WLP) subsystems. These are now in a state were I consider them suitable for inclusion into the kernel.
UWB is a new high speed, short range radio technology (480 Mbit/s at 1 m, 53.3 Mbit/s at 10 m). The specifications are freely available and are managed by the WiMedia Alliance. For more information see http://www.wimedia.org/.
Various protocols run on top of the UWB radio: Certified Wireless USB (WUSB); WiMedia LLC Protocol (WLP), for IP (etc) networks; and (in the future) high speed Bluetooth.
The code is some 35,000 lines so I won't be posting it to this list but you can view the patch set here:
http://www.davidvrabel.org.uk/~david/linux/uwb/
Or you can pull the changes from the uwb branch of
git://pear.davidvrabel.org.uk/git/uwb.git
(Please don't clone the entire tree from here as I have very limited bandwidth.)
Or you can view the patches in the linux-usb archive here:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.usb.general/8715
The vast majority of the code forms part of the new UWB, WUSB, and WLP subsystem with no impact on the rest of the kernel. It has all been posted to the linux-usb list and has been reviewed there.
For a wider review, I will follow up with the 2 minor patches that add some simple infrastructure.
David -- David Vrabel, Senior Software Engineer, Drivers CSR, Churchill House, Cambridge Business Park, Tel: +44 (0)1223 692562 Cowley Road, Cambridge, CB4 0WZ http://www.csr.com/
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