From: "Arend van Spriel" <arend@broadcom.com>
To: "Bruno Randolf" <br1@einfach.org>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, frankyl@broadcom.com,
meuleman@broadcom.com, brudley@broadcom.com,
brcm80211-dev-list@broadcom.com
Subject: Re: Broadcom brcmfmac vs bcmdhd on Android
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 23:10:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5176F8C2.7050502@broadcom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5176ABB1.2070506@einfach.org>
On 04/23/2013 05:41 PM, Bruno Randolf wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I know this is the Linux kernel wireless list, and not Android, but due
> to the lack of better places, I'm going to ask here...
The lines are less drawn than they used to be (at least for me).
> I am trying to make IBSS mode work on Android. As I'm finding problems
> with "bcmdhd", I am wondering if using the "brcmfmac" under Android
> would be the better way to go?
I am working mainly on brcmfmac. IBSS should work, but reading the
commit message of your patch I guess it may be a firmware issue so using
brcmfmac will not make a difference.
> I succeeded to compile brcmfmac from recent compat-drivers against the
> "tuna" (Galaxy Nexus) kernel, the modules load, but no device is
> recognized. Has anyone succeeded doing this? Is there any chance it can
> work?
That is how we did it and with success. What do you mean by 'no device
is recognized'? Do you have any traces to look at?
> Also I'm wondering what is the relation between the "bcmdhd" driver on
> Android and "brcmfmac" in the standard Linux kernel. Is there any
> official maintainer of "bcmdhd", any place where to submit patches? Will
> "bcmdhd" and "brcmfmac" merge eventually?
bcmdhd is what broadcom open-sourced for android. Separately, we started
working on brcmfmac for the mainline linux kernel. Both drivers come
from the same proprietary driver. The goal is to have brcmfmac work on
Android as well and we have most features on board for that.
Regards
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-23 21:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-23 15:41 Broadcom brcmfmac vs bcmdhd on Android Bruno Randolf
2013-04-23 21:10 ` Arend van Spriel [this message]
2013-04-24 15:18 ` Bruno Randolf
2013-04-25 18:39 ` Bruno Randolf
2013-04-25 21:12 ` Franky Lin
2013-04-25 21:36 ` Bruno Randolf
2013-05-17 19:10 ` Bruno Randolf
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