From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael =?ISO-8859-1?Q?B=FCsch?= Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 07:26:40 +0200 Subject: brcm80211 in b43 In-Reply-To: (sfid-20101014_164712_117143_2ADA5717) References: <840064.48426.qm@web111406.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> (sfid-20101014_164712_117143_2ADA5717) Message-ID: <1287120400.28089.36.camel@maggie> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: b43-dev@lists.infradead.org On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 22:47 +0200, Rafa? Mi?ecki wrote: > 2010/10/14 G?bor Stefanik : > > On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 9:51 PM, Ariel Pedraza 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.