Re: [PATCH wireless 3/5] wifi: b43: Stop/wake correct queue in PIO Tx path when QoS is disabled

Larry Finger
2023-12-30T22:24:03Z

On 12/30/23 13:43, Rahul Rameshbabu wrote:
> Unfortunately, new firmware would not prevent the need to fix up the
> code with regards to QoS being disabled via the kernel parameter or
> using OpenFW. That said, new firmware could help us drop the fifth patch
> in this series. I am thinking about using b43-fwcutter to extract
> proprietary fw from a newer release of broadcom-wl to see if that makes
> a difference. That said, I am a bit puzzled since the device I am
> testing on released in early 2011, and I used firmware released in late
> 2012.

Unfortunately, it is very difficult to get the parameters for fwcutter from an
x86 binary. Some of the other architectures are easier.

Larry