From: Helga K <Strike0347@proton.me>
To: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: b43: Putting out feelers on adding support for BCM4360
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2025 10:21:01 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5906467.e9J7NaK4W3@nessa> (raw)
Hi,
I'm a C dev that works in network hardware testing and bringup.
I'm extremely tired of the myriad issues of the broadcom-wl driver, and I'd like to add
support for the BCM4360 card to b43 instead. The last few times this card was mentioned
by developers were:
* Arend van Spriel in 2015 saying support would be unlikely because Broadcom didn't
clear it and because it'd require adding VHT support to brcmsmac (that hasn't changed in
10 years - brcmsmac still doesn't support VHT+ hardware)
* b43 developers adding a stub saying its PHY wasn't supported (but could be in the future)
AFAIK support for this card in b43 is feasible - it's only AC PHY operations that are missing.
My questions are:
* Is it possible to merge new functionality into the driver given its orphaned state? I'm
not capable of taking over maintaining b43.
* Is anyone in the community broadly familiar with reverse-engineering Broadcom hardware
and can bring me up to speed with the state of the art?
Thanks in advance,
Helga
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2025-03-23 10:21 Helga K [this message]
2025-04-04 6:55 ` b43: Putting out feelers on adding support for BCM4360 Jonas Gorski
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