From: "Michael Büsch" <mb@bu3sch.de>
To: b43-dev@lists.infradead.org
Subject: brcm80211 in b43
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 07:26:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1287120400.28089.36.camel@maggie> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikRzOZhtVWH71Q909O-L8=JWhrrR3+6OwnTGR07@mail.gmail.com> (sfid-20101014_164712_117143_2ADA5717)
On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 22:47 +0200, Rafa? Mi?ecki wrote:
> 2010/10/14 G?bor Stefanik <netrolller.3d@gmail.com>:
> > On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 9:51 PM, Ariel Pedraza <pedrazaa@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >> In the future the b43 driver will support the same devices that the brcm80211 driver does? just one universal driver pure FOSS...
> >
> > No.
> >
> > B43 only supports SSB-based devices; while brcm80211 is for SSB-less
> > ones. (Brcmfmac is yet another driver - for fullmac Broadcoms with the
> > exception of BCM4320, which is handled by rndis_wlan.)
>
> Should be possible to add support for SSB-less devices in b43 in
> future. Probably should be easier than adding support for SSB-based
> devices in brcm80211, shouldn't it?
Yeah, I think it's probably easier to extend b43. However, I'm not sure
if it's worth the trouble. We can live with b43 and brcm80211
simultaneously just fine.
--
Greetings Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-15 5:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-14 19:51 brcm80211 in b43 Ariel Pedraza
2010-10-14 20:27 ` Gábor Stefanik
2010-10-14 20:47 ` Rafał Miłecki
2010-10-15 5:26 ` Michael Büsch [this message]
2010-10-15 8:05 ` Arjan Schrijver
2010-10-15 9:55 ` Rafał Miłecki
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