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The firmware for QCA AR7010/AR9271 802.11n USB NICs
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minimal changes to fix the toolchain build process on some newer systems #61

Closed leaf-node closed 10 years ago

leaf-node commented 10 years ago

i cherry picked a binutils patch by @oblique and disabled -Werror for binutils compilation. i've also bumped the gcc release from 4.7.2 to 4.7.4. this fixes all the build issues i had on my system. (debian testing)

this should close #29 and #24.

according gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.7, gcc 4.7.4 is a bug fix release for 4.7.3. while that page doesn't mention other releases, someone in #gcc told me:

21:25 < sudoman> are changes in a gcc x.y branch only bug fixes? or are significant features added in? 21:26 < > bug fixes i think 21:26 < > sometimes a significant feature may be added to the x.y.1 release

i tested the htc_9271.fw file by testing my bandwidth. i live in a dense city residential area, where there's a lot of wifi traffic and are many networks. i tested my the usb wifi dvice at a significant distance from the wifi router on a weekend day when it was also quite hot. download speeds were ok, but uploading was slow. this was on par with past experience under similar circumstances. later in the evening, performance was great. let me know if there are other tests you want me to try on this toolchain.

erikarn commented 10 years ago

Sweet. I'll have to see if we can get someone to test this on the AR7010, then I'll merge it in.

Thanks for this!

erikarn commented 10 years ago

... actually, tell you what, we can always revert it if it's a problem!

leaf-node commented 10 years ago

no problem! thank you! :-)