[QUESTION] 4331 support

Rafał Miłecki zajec5 at gmail.com
Mon Aug 22 16:50:21 EDT 2011


Hi Maxime,

2011/8/22 Maxime Vincent <maxime.vince at gmail.com>:
> I'm sorry if this is a noobish question, or asking this kind of questions is
> not done.
> I'm not really familiar with dev mailing lists.
> I'm new to kernel development, not new to linux.
>
> I was wondering what the status of support for the 4331 wifi chipset was?
> As I can see there's already quite some code for the 4331 chipset, but I
> can't really make up from that if it's supposed to work or not, or maybe
> partially?
>
> I have compiled latest linux-next kernel including the b43 driver, extracted
> firmware, but I can't seem to see an interface registering.
> Only thing I can see in dmesg:
> Broadcom 43xx driver loaded [ Features: PMNLS, Firmware-ID:  FW13 ]

I'm going to clean HT-PHY (BCM4331) support in about a week, as David
wrote, it should be quite stable.

Most of the patches are already in wireless-next, I just need to test
that tree, see if everything was sent&applied correctly and drop
BROKEN from B43_PHY_HT.

If you're "brave" enough, you can:
1) Edit Kconfig and drop BROKEN from B43_PHY_HT
2) Edit dma.h and define B43_DMA_RINGMEMSIZE to "2 * PAGE_SIZE"
(or just wait a week).


I think I will start some b43 tree at git.kernel.org finally, but I
need to spend some time on learning merging & resolving problems.

-- 
Rafał



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