[PATCH 00/20] staging: brcm80211: 7th reaction for mainline patch #2

Arend Van Spriel arend at broadcom.com
Thu Sep 22 13:39:39 UTC 2011


> From: Jonas Gorski [mailto:jonas.gorski at gmail.com]
> Sent: donderdag 22 september 2011 12:08
> To: Arend Van Spriel
> Cc: Michael Büsch; Brett Rudley; Rafał Miłecki; Greg KH; John W.
> Linville; Franky (Zhenhui) Lin; gregkh at suse.de;
> devel at linuxdriverproject.org; linux-wireless at vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/20] staging: brcm80211: 7th reaction for
> mainline patch #2
> 
> 2011/9/22 Arend Van Spriel <arend at broadcom.com>:
> >> From: linux-wireless-owner at vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-wireless-
> >> owner at vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Michael Büsch
> >> Sent: donderdag 22 september 2011 1:29
> >> To: Brett Rudley
> >> Cc: Rafał Miłecki; Greg KH; John W. Linville; Franky (Zhenhui) Lin;
> >> gregkh at suse.de; devel at linuxdriverproject.org; linux-
> >> wireless at vger.kernel.org
> >> Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/20] staging: brcm80211: 7th reaction for
> >> mainline patch #2
> >>
> >> On Wed, 21 Sep 2011 16:15:10 -0700
> >> "Brett Rudley" <brudley at broadcom.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> > We did however initially propose (and implement) a dividing line
> of
> >> ssb chips for b43 and AXI based chips for brcmsmac but b43 team
> chose
> >> to ignore/reject that.
> >>
> >> Well, what about embedded, for instance?
> >
> > The brcmsmac driver has been tested on a MIPS platform by Jonas
> Gorski
> > although only in STA mode (on a bcm63xx). Not having AP mode has been
> > explained in other emails.
> 
> This just happened to be a MIPS, but apart from that it was still a
> mostly standard fare PCIe connected BCM4313, no nothing really
> embedded. What Michael (and Hauke, and Rafal) is talking about are
> BCM47xx SoC where AMBA/AXI is the System Bus, and there is no PCI(e)
> at all (except maybe for connecting a /second/ wifi).
> 
> This was one of the main motivations of the bcma driver.

Yes. That is correct. They could opt for brcmsmac+bcma for that once
that is added.

> Regards,
> Jonas
> 
> P.S: Which reminds me, do you plan to (not) support the integrated
> wifi in the BCM6362? This one seems to be neither bcma nor ssb, but
> it's definitely Broadcom ;) (Haven't gotten my hands yet on a device
> though).

There is no plan on record for that. I had a quick look and it indeed
is another flavor of system bus. I did not figure out yet how to build
a router image and which source files provide bus access for it. I do
not have access to DSL stuff over here.

Gr. AvS


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