[PATCH 00/14] staging: brcm80211: brcmfmac driver cleanup

[Jason]

On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 10:44:46AM -0700, Henry Ptasinski wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 10:38:55AM -0700, Jason wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 10:31:59AM -0700, Henry Ptasinski wrote:
> > > A possibly better approach would be a device with a BCM4329 on the
> > > motherboard (e.g. table, phone, etc) that can run a relatively stock
> > > linux kernel.  However, I don't know of a specific platform at the
> > > moment to recommend.
> > 
> > Nexus One phone?
> 
> That's a possibility.  Are people running recent, relatively unmodified linux
> kernels on the Nexus One?  (Or you could backport brcmfmac to the Android
> version of the kernel, perhaps using compat-wireless).

folks run debian from the sdcard [1], a mainline kernel shouldn't be too
big of a stretch from there.  Especially if the purpose is for testing
wifi.  Don't need PM, GSM, display, 3D, etc for that.

Note, I haven't tried it yet, myself.  It's been on the _long_ list of
projects.  It would be higher on the list if brcmfmac supported all the
normal Linux features like monitor mode, AP mode, multiple-VAPs, etc.
Or, at least, was in mainline and would accept patches adding such
features... ;-)

hth,

Jason.

[1] http://www.irregular-expression.com/?p=30