From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: james at jamesanslow.net Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 00:27:31 +0100 Subject: 4331 support In-Reply-To: <4E56D231.5080306@lwfinger.net> References: <20110825233820.14231gncpwmacjdw@jamesanslow.net> <4E56D231.5080306@lwfinger.net> Message-ID: <20110826002731.55067eao70ovewg8@jamesanslow.net> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: b43-dev@lists.infradead.org Hi Larry, Thanks for getting back to me on this. I'm not overly experienced when it comes to driver development and so I may be best suited to waiting until this is made live. That is, unless compiling and patching experimental drivers is an easy thing to do (but from what I understand it's not?) Kind regards, James Quoting Larry Finger : > On 08/25/2011 05:38 PM, james at jamesanslow.net wrote: >> Can anyone provide me with an update as to the current status of BCM 4331 >> support? Is support going to be coming eventually? Is anyone working on it? > > If you pull the wireless-testing git tree, it is working, perhaps > with minor changes. See a recent mail message: > > ======================================== > Awesome guys, > thanks for the pointers, it worked! (i m sending this email using > the b43 driver!) > > I used the wireless-next git, and then additionally applied the > "b43: HT-PHY: allow writing longer tables with a single call" patch. > (and the ones in Rafal's last mail) > > Thanks for the great support and fast answers! > Congratulations on hacking a driver like this together, I am impressed! > > Best regards, > Maxime > > 2011/8/22 Rafa? Mi?ecki > > Hi Maxime, > > 2011/8/22 Maxime Vincent : > > I'm sorry if this is a noobish question, or asking this kind > of questions is > > not done. > > I'm not really familiar with dev mailing lists. > > I'm new to kernel development, not new to linux. > > > > I was wondering what the status of support for the 4331 wifi > chipset was? > > As I can see there's already quite some code for the 4331 > chipset, but I > > can't really make up from that if it's supposed to work or > not, or maybe > > partially? > > > > I have compiled latest linux-next kernel including the b43 > driver, extracted > > firmware, but I can't seem to see an interface registering. > > Only thing I can see in dmesg: > > Broadcom 43xx driver loaded [ Features: PMNLS, Firmware-ID: FW13 ] > > I'm going to clean HT-PHY (BCM4331) support in about a week, as David > wrote, it should be quite stable. > > Most of the patches are already in wireless-next, I just need to test > that tree, see if everything was sent&applied correctly and drop > BROKEN from B43_PHY_HT. > > If you're "brave" enough, you can: > 1) Edit Kconfig and drop BROKEN from B43_PHY_HT > 2) Edit dma.h and define B43_DMA_RINGMEMSIZE to "2 * PAGE_SIZE" > (or just wait a week). > =============================================== > > > Larry >