W dniu 20 czerwca 2011 23:28 użytkownik Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@xxxxxxxxxx> napisał: > On 06/20/2011 02:41 AM, Rafał Miłecki wrote: >> Hey Hauke, >> >> 2011/6/19 Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@xxxxxxxxxx>: >>> This patch series adds support for embedded devices like bcm47xx to >>> bcma. Bcma is used on bcm4716 and bcm4718 SoCs. With these patches my >>> bcm4716 device boots up till it tries to access the flash, because the >>> serial flash chip is unsupported for now, this will be my next task. >>> This adds support for MIPS cores, interrupt configuration and the >>> serial console. >>> >>> These patches are based on ssb code, some patches by George Kashperko >>> and Bernhard Loos and parts of the source code release by ASUS and >>> Netgear for their devices. >>> >>> This was tested on a Netgear WNDR3400, but did not work fully because >>> of serial flash. >>> >>> This is bases on linux-next next-20110616, to which subsystem >>> maintainer should I send these patches later, as it is based on the >>> most recent version of bcma and bcm47xx? >>> I do not have any normal PCIe based wireless device using this bus, so >>> I have not tested it with such a device, it will be nice to hear if it >>> is still working on them. >>> The parallel flash should work so it could be that it will boot on an >>> Asus rt-n16, I have not tested that. >> >> I'm glad you are still working on it! >> Unfortunately it's really late right now and I'm leaving tomorrow >> (well, today as we passed midnight) for the whole week :( I'm not sure >> if I'll get a chance to review this, not to mention testing against >> any of my PCIe card. > > No problem have a look at it when you find some time for it. There are > still some todos and the serial flash chip is also on my list, so I will > not run out of stuff to do. ;-) > >> >>> An Ethernet driver is not included because the Braodcom source code >>> available is not licensed under a GPL compatible license and building a >>> new driver on that based is not possible. >> >> I wonder if you could write specs for that core, so I could write >> GPL/any driver for it? Is that driver really big? >> > Now I think this will be the fastest solution. Henry Ptasinski from > Broadcom wanted to make it possible for us to use the Braodcom driver > directly as a base, but talking to all the lawyers and managers at > Braodcom to make this possible takes a lot of time and is not promising. > After this and flash support is in the kernel I will work on the > Ethernet driver. They are looking for releasing firmware for other PHYs for months now, so... ;) -- Rafał -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
