[PATCH 00/21] staging: brcm80211: code cleanup and fullmac bugfix

Henry Ptasinski henryp at broadcom.com
Fri Jun 24 22:38:54 UTC 2011


On 06/14/2011 10:50 AM, Henry Ptasinski wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 12:00:45PM -0700, Dan Carpenter wrote:
>    
>> On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 07:23:27PM +0100, julie Sullivan wrote:
>>      
>>>> I am using GregKH's staging-next repo:
>>>> git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging-2.6.git
>>>>
>>>>          
>>>        
>>>> The patch applies on top of 5ad7b85b90e30eb5af4fbf6ce21907a2bd8934df.
>>>>
>>>> Bye, Roland.
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> OK, this compiles fine on x86-64/SMP. It's probably not interesting
>>> but there are just a few warnings:
>>>
>>>        
>> Yeah.  The driver only works under 32 bit.  This is listed in the
>> TODO file as something to fix before it leaves staging.
>>
>>      
> At the moment, we haven't really seen any interest in 64-bit support with sdio
> (almost all actual usage is 32-bit ARM as far as I can tell), but it will
> definitely get more relevant when we add USB support to brcmfmac.  We'll work
> on getting it up and running, but any help would be appreciated.
>
> Is it safe to assume the related modules (mmc.ko, etc) work on 64-bit?
>
> - Henry

I've verified that the brcmfmac driver works on 64-bit x86 kernels.
There are a few compiler warnings that we'll clean up.

- Henry




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