[PATCH 2/2] Using LP firmware for taking advantage of the low-power capabilities.

Jarl Friis jarl at softace.dk
Thu Sep 20 02:32:42 EDT 2012


2012/9/20 Rafał Miłecki <zajec5 at gmail.com>:
> Well, your BCM4322 is not LP-PHY card... does it really work better
> after that change, and wakes up faster? ;)

That was my un-scientific impression, yes (probably biased by
expectations, right? :-) ). But it could also be that I was using a
more upstream kernel than the stock ubuntu kernel. I don't know :-)

> BCM4313 is LCN-PHY, so your change won't affect it, not to mention it
> is not supported by b43.
>
> 14e4:4315 is really BCM4312 (LP-PHY) and maybe could be affected by
> this patch... but just in case of core 16. AFAIK our 14e4:4315 are
> usually devices with core rev 15.

Thanks for clearing that out...

Jarl



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