Re: Broadcom brcmfmac vs bcmdhd on Android

[Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>]

On 04/23/2013 10:10 PM, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> I am working mainly on brcmfmac. IBSS should work, but reading the
> commit message of your patch I guess it may be a firmware issue so using
> brcmfmac will not make a difference.

I would like to try that to confirm it. And from your message I conclude 
the brcmfmac is the way to go forward...

>> I succeeded to compile brcmfmac from recent compat-drivers against the
>> "tuna" (Galaxy Nexus) kernel, the modules load, but no device is
>> recognized. Has anyone succeeded doing this? Is there any chance it can
>> work?
>
> That is how we did it and with success. What do you mean by 'no device
> is recognized'? Do you have any traces to look at?

Good to know. What I did is I compiled the "tuna" kernel (3.0.31) 
without bcmdhd, then brcmfmac from compat-drivers, loaded the brcmfmac 
module (+ dependencies), but then nothing happens. It looks like the 
device is not recognized on SDIO. Is there anything special I need to do 
to activate the chip?
Anyhow I'll debug this further and send you more info later.

Thanks,
bruno