Return-path: Received: from mail-fx0-f217.google.com ([209.85.220.217]:35665 "EHLO mail-fx0-f217.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933622AbZHWNYt convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 Aug 2009 09:24:49 -0400 Received: by fxm17 with SMTP id 17so1085564fxm.37 for ; Sun, 23 Aug 2009 06:24:49 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200908231455.51140.mb@bu3sch.de> References: <4A90B086.1020503@lwfinger.net> <1251018830.23605.32.camel@johannes.local> <200908231455.51140.mb@bu3sch.de> From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=E1bor_Stefanik?= Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 15:24:29 +0200 Message-ID: <69e28c910908230624s1600a9d4k3918875551bfbf4d@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: Abour linux driver supports BCM4325 To: Michael Buesch Cc: Johannes Berg , Larry Finger , feng tian , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Michael Buesch wrote: > On Sunday 23 August 2009 11:13:50 Johannes Berg wrote: >> On Sat, 2009-08-22 at 21:59 -0500, Larry Finger wrote: >> > feng tian wrote: >> > > Thank you for the information. >> > > I get your point. As for the radio and phy driver, I think it's ?some >> > > command based configurations for the chip via SDIO. And that I can >> > > refer to the BCM 43xx PCI driver codes. >> > > Wonder if it's feasible. Needs your comments. >> > > Thanks >> > >> > The first step is to be able to read/write the various registers via >> > SDIO. That will be similar to the PCI operations. The next step is >> > knowing what to read/write and when. We are still working that out for >> > PCI. It is not trivial. See the recent postings of patches for the LP >> > pHY in the linux-wireless mailing list. These are _NOT_ complete. >> >> Right. >> >> You have two completely orthogonal problems: >> >> ?1) changing b43 so it knows how to talk not just to SSB/PCI/PCMCIA >> ? ? chips but also SDIO chips > > We already have working support for that and we're currently merging it mainline. > If you want to help, please test the spinlock removal patchset I just posted. > >> ?2) changing b43 so it knows how to talk to your specific radio/PHY >> ? ? chip, and LP PHY > > Also almost working and in the progress of merging mainline. Not necessarily true in this case - an important 4325-specific routine (SSB PMU recalibration) is still missing. (And I don't tink I'm familiar enough with ssb to do that, unfortunately.) > > -- > Greetings, Michael. > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at ?http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- Vista: [V]iruses, [I]ntruders, [S]pyware, [T]rojans and [A]dware. :-)