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Thank you for the information.
I get your point. As for the radio and phy driver, I think it's  some
command based configurations for the chip via SDIO. And that I can
refer to the BCM 43xx PCI driver codes.
Wonder if it's feasible. Needs your comments.
Thanks

BR
Feng

2009/8/23 Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Sat, 2009-08-22 at 09:27 -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
>> feng tian wrote:
>> > Instead of waiting for the codes, we decide to do someting on
>> > supporting the BCM 4325 running in linux via SDIO.
>> > The linux wireless dirver supports another chip (marvel 8686) with
>> > SDIO interface, the sources codes locate in
>> > drivers/net/wireless/libertas.
>> > We are wondering to develop the BCM4325 driver in the reference to the
>> > marvel 8686 SDIO driver.
>> > Please give comments on this, thanks.
>>
>> The SDIO routines might be transferable; however, the radio and PHY
>> code will be completely different.
>
> Very few of them will be, afaict the SDIO bus access is vastly
> different. Learning how to write an SDIO driver might be possible, but I
> suspect transferring code won't make much sense.
>
> Either way, isobel has some b43 sdio code already.
>
> johannes
>
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