[PATCH v3 3/7] b43: route d11 corerev 22 to 24-bit indirect radio access
Alessio Ferri
alessio.ferri at mythread.it
Sun May 24 14:56:20 PDT 2026
Rev 22 backports the older 802.11 core but pairs it with a radio
in the 2057 family, which requires the 24-bit indirect path. With
the current dispatch, corerev 22 falls into the legacy 4-wire branch,
reads garbage for radio_id, and bails out with -EOPNOTSUPP at the
"FOUND UNSUPPORTED RADIO" branch below.
brcmsmac handles the same silicon family with the equivalent
dispatch in drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmsmac/phy/
phy_cmn.c read_radio_reg() and write_radio_reg():
if ((D11REV_GE(pi->sh->corerev, 24)) ||
(D11REV_IS(pi->sh->corerev, 22)
&& (pi->pubpi.phy_type != PHY_TYPE_SSN))) {
/* radioregaddr / radioregdata (indirect) */
} else {
/* phy4waddr / phy4wdatalo (legacy) */
}
b43 does not support SSN/SSLPN PHYs - they are rejected earlier in
b43_phy_versioning() at the "unsupported PHY type" switch - so just
adding the check corerev == 22 will do.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-4.7-opus
Signed-off-by: Alessio Ferri <alessio.ferri at mythread.it>
---
drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43/main.c | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43/main.c b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43/main.c
index 85ea8fdd9..783af26cb 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43/main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43/main.c
@@ -4563,7 +4563,11 @@ static int b43_phy_versioning(struct b43_wldev *dev)
radio_id = b43_read16(dev, B43_MMIO_RADIO24_DATA);
radio_ver = 0; /* Is there version somewhere? */
- } else if (core_rev >= 24) {
+ } else if (core_rev >= 24 || core_rev == 22) {
+ /*
+ * D11 corerev 22 pairs an older 802.11 core with a 2057
+ * radio that requires the 24-bit indirect access path.
+ */
u16 radio24[3];
for (tmp = 0; tmp < 3; tmp++) {
--
2.54.0
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