[LEDE-DEV] b43 support for AC chipsets like BCM4360 and BCM4352?

[Baptiste Jonglez]

On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 06:31:43PM -0700, rosenp at gmail.com wrote:
> Based on kernel activity, this driver is not under active development.
> 
> And yes, avoid.

Ok, I was hoping to get an answer from Rafał or Hauke.

But you seem to be right about the development activity!

Thanks,
Baptiste

> On Tue, 2017-08-01 at 00:42 +0200, Baptiste Jonglez wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > As far as I can tell, the b43 driver does not support AC chipsets
> > like
> > BCM4352, BCM4360, BCM4366.  Support for these is marked BROKEN
> > upstream.
> > 
> > This means that a few devices supported by LEDE actually have no
> > wireless,
> > for instance Archer C9 v1, ASUS RT-AC68U, maybe others.  Also, quite
> > a lot
> > of dual-band devices lack 5 GHz support, because BCM4360 seems to be
> > quite
> > popular as a second wireless chipset.
> > 
> > Is there any news regarding AC support in b43, and more generally
> > b43-related activity, or should we just avoid these devices?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Baptiste
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