From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael =?UTF-8?B?QsO8c2No?= Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2012 21:39:34 +0200 Subject: [RFC] b43-fwcutter: Add support for generating a fw for brcmsmac In-Reply-To: <1348425562-30730-1-git-send-email-hauke@hauke-m.de> References: <1348425562-30730-1-git-send-email-hauke@hauke-m.de> Message-ID: <20120923213934.4da339ae@milhouse> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Hauke Mehrtens Cc: b43-dev@lists.infradead.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, brcm80211-dev-list@broadcom.com On Sun, 23 Sep 2012 20:39:22 +0200 Hauke Mehrtens wrote: > The normal firmware for brcmsmac is available in the linux-firmware git > repository, but this firmware does not work on a bcm4716 devices with a > ieee80211 core rev 16. When using a firmware extracted from the > proprietary Broadcom driver the device works with brcmsmac. > > I tested a firmware version 666.2 extracted from the proprietary driver > with brcmsmac on a BCM4716 and a BCM43224 and haven't seen any > problems. The interface between the firmware and the driver changed > some times, brcmsmac only support firmware version 598 and newer. > > For some entries in the firmware used by brcmsmac, fwcutter has to be > more extended, so we are adding dummy entires for them in > brcmsmac_add_dummy_entries(). Currently these entries are not used by > brcmsmac, but it is checked if they are in the archive. > > I would still appreciate if Broadcom could release a firmware with > support for the ieee80211 core found in the bcm4716. > > Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens I'm OK with it. Some other comments? -- Greetings, Michael. PGP encryption is encouraged / 908D8B0E -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 836 bytes Desc: not available URL: