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2011/8/31 Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> On 08/31/2011 03:27 PM, Matthew Frazier wrote:
>>
>> Hello, Linux wireless people.
>>
>> On the b43 device list[1], you have support for the BCM4331 listed as
>> "Soon (3.2+)". Does this mean "it will be in 3.2," "we will start working on
>> it after 3.2," or something else?
>
> Support for that chip will be in kernel 3.2. In fact, the code now in the
> wireless testing git tree handles that chip without any other changes (as of
> the August 30 update).

Matthew: you should just apply one more patch to make performance on
BCM4331 much better:
http://files.zajec.net/0001-b43-ctl1-on-all-new-PHYs.patch

This patch still waits for updating specs [1] before going mainline
(ping Larry about that ;) )

[1] http://bcm-v4.sipsolutions.net/802.11/PHY/TxControl1

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Rafał
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