AW: Re: BCM4360 AC-PHY support for b43 — reverse-engineered, seeking guidance on a clean path upstream

[andreas.wendleder]

Hi Michael,

> So I think if you use one of these approaches, you are fine.

Definitely not. :o Apart from register dumps Ghidra was used to decompile and analyze the original driver and all steps were heavily AI assisted. Also, the driver is still kind of rough.

> I think there
> must be a human involved to review the specification for copyrighted material.
> But also for quality control.

I can have a look at every piece I give out.

> So, yeah. Feel free to post both your specification and your implementation if you like.
> Please also fully disclose how the intermediate steps were developed and
> what role AI assistance played.
> Then we can decide how to continue.

I'm keeping the repo private for now, I'm happy to review the spec or give it out piecewise, just to be safe, if someone is interested in implementing it.

> I hope that not too many changes to the existing common parts and other PHYs are
> needed, to keep the regression risk low.

It's about 11.000 lines but I think the common parts weren't changed too much.

I`m looking forward to hearing your opinion.

Best regards,
Andreas