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Re: rev-17 Broadcom core support in b43 and CONFIG_B43_BCMA_EXTRA

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On 02/21/2013 01:17 PM, W. Trevor King wrote:
> I've been poking around in b43 and brcmsmac trying to wrap my head 
> around device detection.  Obviously, b43 and brcmsmac both support 
> some devices, and since 4f3d09d (b43: add option to avoid
> duplicating device support with brcmsmac, 2012-01-11) overlapping
> devices have been masked behind CONFIG_B43_BCMA_EXTRA.  At the time
> of that commit, brcmsmac didn't support the r17 cores, but support
> has since been added in 6f80f01 (brcmsmac: add support for cores
> with revision 17, 2012-12-07).  Does that mean that b43 should move
> the r17 core entry into the masked-by-CONFIG_B43_BCMA_EXTRA block?

Yes you could move that core id into the CONFIG_B43_BCMA_EXTRA block,
but this core was just found on Router SoCs and there you mostly want
to use AP mode, which brcmsmac does not support.

Hauke
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