On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 12:20 +0100, Florian Fainelli wrote: > On Monday 17 January 2011 11:56:23 Michael BÃsch wrote: > > On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 11:46 +0100, Jonas Gorski wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I am currently looking into adding support for the newer Broadcom > > > BCM47xx/53xx SoCs. They require having HND/AI support, which probably > > > means merging the current SSB code and the HND/AI code from the > > > brcm80211 driver. Is anyone already working on this? > > > > > > As far as I can see, there are two possibilities: > > > > > > a) Merge the HND/AI code into the current SSB code, or > > > > > > b) add the missing code for SoCs to brcm80211 and replace the SSB code > > > with it. > > > > Why can't we keep those two platforms separated? > > That is also what I am wondering about. Considering that previous BCM47xx > platforms use a MIPS4k core and newer one use MIPS74k or later, you would not > be able to build a single kernel for both which takes advantages of compile- > time optimizations targetting MIPS74k. If this ist not a big concern, then > let's target a single kernel. Ok, but it should be easily possible to compile both SSB and HND/AI bus support into one kernel anyway. Nothing prevents drivers from having an SSB and an HND/AI probe callback. -- Greetings Michael.
