On 08/27/2011 05:12 PM, Rafał Miłecki wrote: > W dniu 27 sierpnia 2011 17:08 użytkownik Rafał Miłecki > <zajec5@xxxxxxxxx> napisał: >> 2011/8/27 Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxx>: >>> On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 05:35:13PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote: >>>> On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 10:55:26PM +0200, 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? >>>>> >>>> >>>> Wow. Why are we only having this discussion now? Somewhere along >>>> the line, there has been a massive communications failure. What >>>> happened here? Henry, did you know about the b43 driver? Can >>>> someone explain what's going on? >>> >>> I always thought that b43 and the staging driver supported different >>> devices and had no overlap, which is why I had no problem with it. >>> >>> Was I totally mistaken and got this wrong? >> >> Please see my last e-mail in this thread for history overview. >> >> Right now the only card that is supported by brcmsmac and is not >> supported by b43 is 14e4:4727. That card is based on PHY type LCN, and >> I'm working on adding support for it in b43. >> >> Other cards supported by brcmsmac (14e4:4353, 14e4:4357) are supported >> by b43. > > b43 also works on SoCs (routers) using BCMA and having BCMA core based > on N-PHY. This support was added by Hauke and I think he reported AP > mode was somehow working for him. AFAIR it wasn't stable yet, but some > packets were transferred :) > Yes AP mode is working with the code in wireless-testing, expect that the architecture code (mips) does not provide the sprom stored in the flash to bcma yet. I just set a random mac address for the device and wireless worked. I have not tested it much, just connected with a client and got the same speed with iperf as b43 running in client mode. As no additional changes where needed for AP mode I think b43 should already support the same functionality when using N-PHY devices as with G-PHY devices. Hauke -- 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
