On 06/30/2012 03:16 PM, Hauke Mehrtens wrote: > This series contains some patches needed to get brcmsmac working on > SoCs like the BCM4718. > The last part which adds core rev 17 (used in the BCM4718) to the list > of supported cores is missing, because we do not have a firmware > supporting this core yet, but I extended the b43 fwcutter to generate > a firmware which brcmsmac accepts. With this firmware my BCM4718 > works. I would appreciate an official firmware release from Broadcom > adding support for this core. > The final patch adding support for the BCM43224 is missing because > the PCIe host controller on the BCM4718 still causes problems and I > have to add some more read after writes into the code, for now it uses > an ugly hack and sometimes the problems still occur. > > The wifi is not stable on the BCM4718, I had no problems connecting to > my ath9k driven access point but I have problems connecting to my > BCM47186 based AP running the vendor firmware with the Broadcom > proprietary driver. > I get 12MBit/s max with the BCM4718 connected to ath9k on the 2.4 GHz > band and 35 MBit/s max with the BCM43224 on the 5Ghz band connected to > a Broadcom based AP running the proprietary driver. This seams to be > CPU bounced as I have over 50% sirq in both cases. > > brcmsmac starts on the BCM47186 (id: 0x5357), but it does not tx or rx > any traffic. > > One patch extends the xmtfifo_sz array for more core revs, I just toke > the values from the other phy-n cores and hope this is correct. > > These patches are depending on: "[PATCH v2 0/9] bcma misc updates" and > based on wireless-testing. > > I will send a patch for bcma which converts the warning message when it > found a PCI and not a PCIe card into a WARN. > > v2: > - when something depends on a patch for bcma, which is not in > wireless-testing yet, I add that to the commit comment. > - removed changes for BCM43421 and BCM6362 as I do not have a device > to test this. > - xmtfifo_sz now starts at core rev 17 and contains the correct values > for core rev 28 > - make brcms_c_chipmatch() also work for SoCs > - typos and format changes > I have acked all patches, but would like to do some sanity testing today. Gr. AvS -- 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
