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On Sun, Apr 08, 2012 at 09:54:31PM +0200, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> 2012/4/8 Arend van Spriel <arend@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > On 04/06/2012 11:43 PM, Hauke Mehrtens wrote:
> >> What are your plans to support phy_ht in brcmsmac, for now it is just
> >> supported by b43?
> >
> >
> > I have not been paying good attention to community feedback on b43 phy_ht
> > support. As b43 support bcm4331 with that phy we decided to stay clear from
> > that device. We are to add new phy code for new devices. Not sure if that
> > includes the phy_ht.
> 
> Whoops, that's extremely too bad. HT support is really wanted for a
> lot of routers. What we have in b43 is support coming from watching
> mmio ops only, there is no way for it to be complete. I believe you
> really should think and releasing HT PHY code, a lot of ppl will be
> interested in that.

I second this. Besides routers, some recent MacBooks use bcm4331 and
lack support for HT or for the 5 GHz band. Plus on the model I'm working
with at least (MacBook Pro 8,2) Tx stops working completely after S3
unless b43 and bcma are reloaded, and I haven't had any luck finding a
fix for it.

Seth

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