rev-17 Broadcom core support in b43 and CONFIG_B43_BCMA_EXTRA

[Hauke Mehrtens]

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On 02/21/2013 02:46 PM, W. Trevor King wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 02:07:23PM +0100, Hauke Mehrtens wrote:
>> On 02/21/2013 01:17 PM, W. Trevor King wrote:
>>> I've been poking around in b43 and brcmsmac trying to wrap my
>>> head around device detection.  Obviously, b43 and brcmsmac both
>>> support some devices, and since 4f3d09d (b43: add option to
>>> avoid duplicating device support with brcmsmac, 2012-01-11)
>>> overlapping devices have been masked behind
>>> CONFIG_B43_BCMA_EXTRA.  At the time of that commit, brcmsmac
>>> didn't support the r17 cores, but support has since been added
>>> in 6f80f01 (brcmsmac: add support for cores with revision 17,
>>> 2012-12-07).  Does that mean that b43 should move the r17 core
>>> entry into the masked-by-CONFIG_B43_BCMA_EXTRA block?
>> 
>> Yes you could move that core id into the CONFIG_B43_BCMA_EXTRA
>> block, but this core was just found on Router SoCs and there you
>> mostly want to use AP mode, which brcmsmac does not support.
> 
> So maybe a CONFIG_BRCM_BCMA_EXTRA to mask brcmsmac devices when b43
> is the recommended module?
> 
I would like to stay with the current situation. This
CONFIG_B43_BCMA_EXTRA is useful for distributions like Ubuntu where
you have one image used on many different devices and you are shipping
mostly every kernel model. No one used distributions like Ubuntu on
the BCM4716 where this core rev 17 wifi core is found. There you just
build an image with the modules you need so you end up with b43 or
brcmsmac in your image.

Hauke
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