Subject: Re: Abour linux driver supports BCM4325
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: feng tian <feng.of.tian@gmail.com>, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
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Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 20:13:43 +0200
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On Sat, 2009-08-22 at 09:27 -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
> feng tian wrote:
> > Instead of waiting for the codes, we decide to do someting on
> > supporting the BCM 4325 running in linux via SDIO.
> > The linux wireless dirver supports another chip (marvel 8686) with
> > SDIO interface, the sources codes locate in
> > drivers/net/wireless/libertas.
> > We are wondering to develop the BCM4325 driver in the reference to the
> > marvel 8686 SDIO driver.
> > Please give comments on this, thanks.
>=20
> The SDIO routines might be transferable; however, the radio and PHY
> code will be completely different.

Very few of them will be, afaict the SDIO bus access is vastly
different. Learning how to write an SDIO driver might be possible, but I
suspect transferring code won't make much sense.

Either way, isobel has some b43 sdio code already.

johannes

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