From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael =?ISO-8859-1?Q?B=FCsch?= Subject: Re: Merging SSB and HND/AI support Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 13:00:09 +0100 Message-ID: <1295265609.24530.25.camel@maggie> References: <1295261783.24530.3.camel@maggie> <201101171220.52292.florian@openwrt.org> (sfid-20110117_122124_233292_51C2DD96) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Jonas Gorski , linux-mips-6z/3iImG2C8G8FEW9MqTrA@public.gmane.org, linux-wireless-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, netdev-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Florian Fainelli Return-path: In-Reply-To: <201101171220.52292.florian-p3rKhJxN3npAfugRpC6u6w@public.gmane.org> (sfid-20110117_122124_233292_51C2DD96) Sender: linux-wireless-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 12:20 +0100, Florian Fainelli wrote:=20 > On Monday 17 January 2011 11:56:23 Michael B=C3=BCsch wrote: > > On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 11:46 +0100, Jonas Gorski wrote: > > > Hello, > > >=20 > > > I am currently looking into adding support for the newer Broadcom > > > BCM47xx/53xx SoCs. They require having HND/AI support, which prob= ably > > > means merging the current SSB code and the HND/AI code from the > > > brcm80211 driver. Is anyone already working on this? > > >=20 > > > As far as I can see, there are two possibilities: > > >=20 > > > a) Merge the HND/AI code into the current SSB code, or > > >=20 > > > b) add the missing code for SoCs to brcm80211 and replace the SSB= code > > > with it. > >=20 > > Why can't we keep those two platforms separated? >=20 > That is also what I am wondering about. Considering that previous BCM= 47xx=20 > platforms use a MIPS4k core and newer one use MIPS74k or later, you w= ould not=20 > be able to build a single kernel for both which takes advantages of c= ompile- > time optimizations targetting MIPS74k. If this ist not a big concern,= then=20 > let's target a single kernel. Ok, but it should be easily possible to compile both SSB and HND/AI bus support into one kernel anyway. Nothing prevents drivers from havin= g an SSB and an HND/AI probe callback. --=20 Greetings Michael. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireles= s" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html