From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.forwardemail.net (smtp.forwardemail.net [121.127.44.73]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 80BE034DCFF for ; Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:30:47 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=121.127.44.73 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1776166249; cv=none; b=tiKaCoJ6GhcsNagTT6ecFitk6POObYElB0IihU0f0hSHzktgk72jbh1jKVl6ID3LYFdEdHkH7K2A3l6K35Od3xsEAVZgXo4bQ5AETJn9Fs+ZAOmo7ChSEQuTtiTY6r3dv0KvFk1uB/ba8OgKoVxVshCOT28f8ui5ouAEuimsOuo= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1776166249; c=relaxed/simple; bh=Xitvg6EmoRMrDndV4vUkzGscWrGz8aNvlTxgksPRITo=; h=Mime-Version:Content-Type:Date:Message-Id:Subject:From:To: References:In-Reply-To; b=ppOSFmd0T30vdvv9X1KPu9YyX4ahxLnkkhTUIQ1S7bwuDnvoH4p2a+TsE0Kzee21/cPUy0Ads3jAjCS07paSqnVqSamiAMqSfeUHwxYXmIhOYmPsd0ccQ5VshOYuI9ldGi9Vn0lxp3qwgWzbYqEEE5lxbOqPuvuITHsIj5DMeoY= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=ubuntu.com; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=fe-bounces.ubuntu.com; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=ubuntu.com header.i=@ubuntu.com header.b=Sw/x50hn; arc=none smtp.client-ip=121.127.44.73 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=ubuntu.com Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=fe-bounces.ubuntu.com Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=ubuntu.com header.i=@ubuntu.com header.b="Sw/x50hn" DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=ubuntu.com; h=In-Reply-To: References: To: From: Subject: Message-Id: Date: Content-Type: Content-Transfer-Encoding: Mime-Version; q=dns/txt; s=fe-953a8a3ca9; t=1776166247; bh=Xitvg6EmoRMrDndV4vUkzGscWrGz8aNvlTxgksPRITo=; b=Sw/x50hnJhWmDl9Uikpf5/xQkojwAPgHjOtkDQI5sxbOmV2J/rQgMQkD26fQgpeFgm4fj6nuu rldgxCkP13iACNiavPcSfl9blyI1u8Ogb66MvKn4MIhZwsfTeHfBhSKQFa5prFqAN23TkB4zf/A e0mgUSYsRiAO65Mz7eNiVlxrU15TdFren5UPkmiWvY4fWy6o1ezgpacyo7xMS/UpXKwPmweyy1S QFMO439jksJRTh2dv7k2WN7bIxMkp1WY0UHxomy8jiOgWjcg54VghJQ0HSpHhmOcD0FqOCmzUmz 6sjMpyhz28qZJVJuheH9+ovLB//0k893EKAdSTwcwUGg== X-Forward-Email-ID: 69de25640963e560b6266193 X-Forward-Email-Sender: rfc822; jpeisach@ubuntu.com, smtp.forwardemail.net, 121.127.44.73 X-Forward-Email-Version: 2.7.3 X-Forward-Email-Website: https://forwardemail.net X-Complaints-To: abuse@forwardemail.net X-Report-Abuse: abuse@forwardemail.net X-Report-Abuse-To: abuse@forwardemail.net Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=Flowed Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2026 07:30:43 -0400 Message-Id: Subject: Re: Firmware for reverse engineering b43? From: "Joshua Peisach" To: "Johannes Berg" , "Joshua Peisach" , , X-Mailer: aerc 0.21.0 References: In-Reply-To: On Tue Apr 14, 2026 at 5:14 AM EDT, Johannes Berg wrote: > I think there's no easy answer - what are you even trying to achieve? > Does b43 not work sufficiently well? Do you even know if some specific > calibration have a tendency to go out of whack? Is there later firmware > that has some advantage (given how little actually happens in firmware > in these devices, I'd be surprised by that) but isn't compatible with > the driver now, and you want to change that? > > I'd be tempted to say that if there's no problem there don't try to fix > anything, the hardware is ancient anyway, likely has few users, and > those users would probably be fine with just leaving it? > > johannes The BCM4321 (nphy) doesn't connect to my 5G network, so I figured that by filling in TODOs and FIXME's, I could eventually get something working. Other than that, I was thinking of making improvements for the sake of improving the driver. -Josh