Looking for dual core (IEEE 802.11) device supported by b43

Larry Finger Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net
Sun Apr 20 10:09:36 PDT 2014


On 04/20/2014 11:58 AM, Michael Büsch wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Apr 2014 18:17:17 +0200
> Rafał Miłecki <zajec5 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I was wondering if we need support for core switching in b43. Is there
>> any device supported by b43 that has two IEEE 802.11 ssb cores?
>>
>> I was searching for examples of such devices and they always are ssb
>> chipsets 0x4306 with two IEEE 802.11 cores rev 0x04. As you know, revs
>> 0x02 and 0x04 are supported by b43legacy.
>>
>> Maybe some uncommon PCMCIA/SDIO devices? Anyone recalling them?
>
>
> There never was a supported device that required coreswitching.
> So it's completely untested.
> As of my knowledge only a few of the very early A-PHY devices
> required this.
> Feel free to remove it from b43.

I agree.

Larry




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