b43 / LCN PHY

Larry Finger Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net
Mon Nov 25 11:42:33 EST 2013


On 11/25/2013 05:32 AM, Hauke Mehrtens wrote:
> On 11/25/2013 11:33 AM, Christopher Horler wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I enabled the (broken) LCN PHY support.  I understand it's broken, I'm
>> not expecting it to work... at least not yet!
>>
>> Is anyone looking at this?
>>
>> Are there any obvious major blocking issues (so as to avoid unnecessary effort)?
>>
>> Chris
>
> I do not think anybody will work on adding support for the LCN PHY
> (BCM4313) to b43 any more, because brcmsmac already supports this device.
>
> There is some code missing to make this card working in b43, it is not
> working at all, you should use brcmsmac.

As the only person working on reverse engineering of Broadcom chips, I am 
certain that anything missing from the LCN specs is unlikely to be added. I 
agree that you should use brcmsmac and report all problems.

Larry






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