From: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
To: Gucea Doru <gucea.doru@gmail.com>
Cc: <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Fwd: bcmdhd: Concurrent use of wlan0 and virtual interface in managed mode
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2015 11:24:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55EEA958.4060300@broadcom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANfLQrbX4GmTbEuvnm+25bwCknB6DR2aQZN=0ZrHqdjCKXYYcw@mail.gmail.com>
On 09/08/2015 09:50 AM, Gucea Doru wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 12:01 AM, Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com> wrote:
>
>> The BCM4339 chip does not rely on mac80211. Instead, there is an
>> 802.11 stack running on the device, ie. in firmware. The driver creates the
>> primary interface, ie. wlan0. Additional P2P interfaces are created by
>> wpa_supplicant.
>>
>
> Hm, BCM4339 uses the bcmdhd driver.
> So the bcmdhd driver is not a softmac[1] driver and the the 802.11
> processing is not done in software, right?
Sure it is done in software. Just not on the host, ie. in linux kernel,
but on the device.
Regards,
Arend
> [1] https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/glossary#softmac
>
> Regards,
> Doru
>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-08 9:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-23 15:15 bcmdhd: Concurrent use of wlan0 and virtual interface in managed mode Gucea Doru
2015-08-24 8:08 ` Arend van Spriel
2015-08-25 21:05 ` Gucea Doru
[not found] ` <CAG8K7gRdXqpfA3_HPoaM+ivgxH4eiPRWkD238QwMMbNigYHDBw@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <CANfLQraZAkw0Eqt-Mog5t4ZfGFx3xm_8-6nJoJ68Mim18bW3Tg@mail.gmail.com>
2015-09-07 20:41 ` Fwd: " Gucea Doru
2015-09-07 21:01 ` Arend van Spriel
2015-09-08 7:50 ` Gucea Doru
2015-09-08 9:24 ` Arend van Spriel [this message]
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