On 07/06/2012 08:35 PM, John W. Linville wrote: > On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 09:13:13AM +0200, Arend van Spriel wrote: >> 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. > > Have you had a chance to do this testing? Are you OK with this series? > > John > Yes, I am. Sorry for not getting back on that earlier. 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
