From: "Henry Ptasinski" <henryp@broadcom.com>
To: "Rafał Miłecki" <zajec5@gmail.com>
Cc: "Arend Van Spriel" <arend@broadcom.com>,
"Franky (Zhenhui) Lin" <frankyl@broadcom.com>,
"gregkh@suse.de" <gregkh@suse.de>,
"devel@linuxdriverproject.org" <devel@linuxdriverproject.org>,
"linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
"Henry Ptasinski" <henryp@broadcom.com>,
hharte@broadcom.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/14] staging: brcm80211: brcmfmac driver cleanup
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 10:31:59 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110826173159.GA4888@broadcom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACna6rzJWHP+EPy6bwQkLZnjxsL6TKfYnQ71Nq8myOjmeBPODg@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 02:20:43AM -0700, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> W dniu 12 sierpnia 2011 22:04 użytkownik Rafał Miłecki
> <zajec5@gmail.com> napisał:
> > W dniu 12 sierpnia 2011 18:32 użytkownik Arend van Spriel
> > <arend@broadcom.com> napisał:
> >> On 08/12/2011 04:02 PM, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> >>>
> >>> 2011/8/12 Arend van Spriel<arend@broadcom.com>:
> >>>>
> >>>> Several cleanup patches to reduce code for the brcmfmac driver and
> >>>> get rid of a remaining checkpatch warning. The driver sources should
> >>>> be clear from checkpatch issue now.
> >>>>
> >>>> This series applies to staging-next and depends on the following patch
> >>>> set:
> >>>
> >>> Are you testing patches on some hardware? Or just compile-testing?
> >>>
> >>> I believe this driver is meant to support BCM4329, which is not PCI(e)
> >>> board. What adapter do you use?
> >>>
> >>> I've heard about Arasan adapter. Have you tried it? Is that something
> >>> reachable from arasan.com?
> >>
> >> Our brcm80211 source tree under drivers/staging contain two drivers. The
> >> brcmsmac driver currently supporting the PCI(e) cards with bcm43224,
> >> bcm43225, and bcm4313 chips and the brcmfmac driver currently supporting the
> >> SDIO card with bcm4329 chip. brcmsmac is a mac80211 driver and brcmfmac is a
> >> cfg80211 driver.
> >>
> >> We indeed use the Arasan adapter and both drivers are running in nightly
> >> test cycle testing our common internal repository. So the drivers are
> >> functionally tested on the x86 platforms (32 and 64 bit). Also looking at
> >> sparc64 and powerpc64 but not in a nightly cycle.
> >
> > Is there a chance you can donate me with such a adapter and card?
>
> Ping?
Sorry, I meant to respond to this earlier. The Arasan adapters are in very
short supply here, and honestly they have enough issues that we're looking for
better options. A possibly better approach would be a device with a BCM4329 on
the motherboard (e.g. table, phone, etc) that can run a relatively stock linux
kernel. However, I don't know of a specific platform at the moment to
recommend.
A second choice would be something with a decent sdio controller built-in.
Some older laptops worked ok (e.g. Dell E4100), but they're more and more
diffucult to find.
- Henry
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-26 17:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-12 13:34 [PATCH 00/14] staging: brcm80211: brcmfmac driver cleanup Arend van Spriel
2011-08-12 13:34 ` [PATCH 01/14] staging: brcm80211: use wait queues instead of semaphores in wl_cfg80211.c Arend van Spriel
2011-08-12 14:07 ` Rafał Miłecki
2011-08-12 16:44 ` Arend van Spriel
2011-08-12 18:55 ` Arend van Spriel
2011-08-12 18:59 ` Johannes Berg
2011-08-12 18:59 ` Franky Lin
2011-08-12 19:08 ` Larry Finger
2011-08-12 19:10 ` Arend van Spriel
2011-08-16 20:27 ` Rafał Miłecki
2011-08-12 19:05 ` [PATCHv2 " Arend van Spriel
2011-08-12 19:07 ` Arend van Spriel
2011-08-12 19:09 ` Arend van Spriel
2011-08-16 17:56 ` Dan Carpenter
2011-08-12 13:34 ` [PATCH 02/14] staging: brcm80211: remove iovar IOV_BLOCKSIZE in brcmfmac Arend van Spriel
2011-08-12 14:12 ` Rafał Miłecki
2011-08-12 16:37 ` Arend van Spriel
2011-08-12 20:02 ` Rafał Miłecki
2011-08-12 13:34 ` [PATCH 03/14] staging: brcm80211: remove struct sdioh_info from brcmfmac Arend van Spriel
2011-08-12 13:34 ` [PATCH 04/14] staging: brcm80211: remove global var gInstance " Arend van Spriel
2011-08-12 13:34 ` [PATCH 05/14] staging: brcm80211: remove wext traces in fullmac Arend van Spriel
2011-08-12 13:34 ` [PATCH 06/14] staging: brcm80211: absorb brcmf_sdioh_iovar_op into brcmf_sdcard_iovar_op Arend van Spriel
2011-08-12 13:34 ` [PATCH 07/14] staging: brcm80211: absorb brcmf_sdioh_interrupt_register into brcmf_sdcard_intr_reg Arend van Spriel
2011-08-12 14:31 ` Rafał Miłecki
2011-08-12 13:34 ` [PATCH 08/14] staging: brcm80211: absorb brcmf_sdioh_interrupt_deregister into brcmf_sdcard_intr_dereg Arend van Spriel
2011-08-12 13:34 ` [PATCH 09/14] staging: brcm80211: absorb brcmf_sdioh_abort into brcmf_sdcard_abort Arend van Spriel
2011-08-12 13:34 ` [PATCH 10/14] staging: brcm80211: remove dead code from dhd_sdio.c Arend van Spriel
2011-08-12 13:34 ` [PATCH 11/14] staging: brcm80211: remove wrapper functions in bcmsdh_sdmmc.c Arend van Spriel
2011-08-12 13:34 ` [PATCH 12/14] staging: brcm80211: remove unused parameter from data interface in fullmac Arend van Spriel
2011-08-12 13:35 ` [PATCH 13/14] staging: brcm80211: remove dead SDTEST code from fullmac Arend van Spriel
2011-08-12 13:35 ` [PATCH 14/14] staging: brcm80211: remove unused func parameter in wl_cfg80211 of fullmac Arend van Spriel
2011-08-12 14:02 ` [PATCH 00/14] staging: brcm80211: brcmfmac driver cleanup Rafał Miłecki
2011-08-12 15:14 ` Hauke Mehrtens
2011-08-12 15:43 ` Rafał Miłecki
2011-08-12 16:32 ` Arend van Spriel
2011-08-12 20:04 ` Rafał Miłecki
2011-08-13 7:47 ` Arend van Spriel
2011-08-13 8:30 ` Rafał Miłecki
2011-08-26 9:20 ` Rafał Miłecki
2011-08-26 17:31 ` Henry Ptasinski [this message]
2011-08-26 17:38 ` Jason
2011-08-26 17:44 ` Henry Ptasinski
2011-08-26 20:00 ` Jason
2011-08-26 20:15 ` Henry Ptasinski
2011-08-23 20:07 ` Greg KH
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