W dniu 26 sierpnia 2011 19:55 użytkownik Henry Ptasinski <henryp@xxxxxxxxxxxx> napisał: > On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 01:55:26PM -0700, Rafał Miłecki wrote: >> 2011/8/25 Henry Ptasinski <henryp@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: >> > With the latest series of cleanup patches merged in by Greg KH, I'd like to >> > once again propose moving brcm80211 out of staging and into mainline. >> >> Henry: a simple question, please explain it to me, what brcmsmac does >> provide that b43 doesn't? > > The brcmsmac driver supports the BCM4313, BCM43224, and BCM43225 chipsets with > full performance i.e. rate vs. range comparable to what's achived with these > chips running under other operating systems. Henry, I've made quick simple comparison of wl (which is slightly newer version of brcmsmac) with b43 for my 14e4:4329 card. I chose this card, because it's affected by DMA hardware bug we've recently added fix for in ssb&b43. You can see attached files for raw results or view chart at my blog: http://zajec.net/blog/view/2011-b43-dma-fixed-on-some-pci-cards As you can see, b43 is very comparable with wl/brcmsmac and sometimes can achieve even higher speeds (for high rates in this case). I believe this will make you calmer about quality of the b43. -- Rafał
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