From: "Henry Ptasinski" <henryp@broadcom.com>
To: Jason <linuxdriverproject@lakedaemon.net>
Cc: "Rafał Miłecki" <zajec5@gmail.com>,
"Howard Harte" <hharte@broadcom.com>,
"gregkh@suse.de" <gregkh@suse.de>,
"linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
"devel@linuxdriverproject.org" <devel@linuxdriverproject.org>,
"Henry Ptasinski" <henryp@broadcom.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/14] staging: brcm80211: brcmfmac driver cleanup
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 13:15:34 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110826201534.GR4888@broadcom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110826200057.GM29321@titan.lakedaemon.net>
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 01:00:57PM -0700, Jason wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 10:44:46AM -0700, Henry Ptasinski wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 10:38:55AM -0700, Jason wrote:
> > > On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 10:31:59AM -0700, Henry Ptasinski wrote:
> > > > 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.
> > >
> > > Nexus One phone?
> >
> > That's a possibility. Are people running recent, relatively unmodified linux
> > kernels on the Nexus One? (Or you could backport brcmfmac to the Android
> > version of the kernel, perhaps using compat-wireless).
>
> folks run debian from the sdcard [1], a mainline kernel shouldn't be too
> big of a stretch from there. Especially if the purpose is for testing
> wifi. Don't need PM, GSM, display, 3D, etc for that.
>
> Note, I haven't tried it yet, myself. It's been on the _long_ list of
> projects. It would be higher on the list if brcmfmac supported all the
> normal Linux features like monitor mode, AP mode, multiple-VAPs, etc.
> Or, at least, was in mainline and would accept patches adding such
> features... ;-)
Would definitely accept patches for such features! We're definitely interested
in them, and they're all on our list to add, but crossing the chasm is the
first step.
- Henry
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-26 20:15 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
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 [this message]
2011-08-23 20:07 ` Greg KH
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