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Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 12:36:57 -0500
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Subject: Re: [ANN] Full-source Broadcom wireless driver for 11n chips
From: Qasim Javed <qasimj@gmail.com>
To: Henry Ptasinski <henryp@broadcom.com>
Cc: devel@linuxdriverproject.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
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Wow, very excited about Broadcom taking this step.

Thanks for the efforts of everyone involved in this.

-Qasim

On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Henry Ptasinski <henryp@broadcom.com> wrote:
> Broadcom would like to announce the initial release of a fully-open
> Linux driver for it's latest generation of 11n chipsets. ?The driver,
> while still a work in progress, is released as full source and uses the
> native mac80211 stack. ? It supports multiple current chips (BCM4313,
> BCM43224, BCM43225) as well as providing a framework for supporting
> additional chips in the future, including mac80211-aware embedded chips.
> ?The README and TODO files included with the sources provide more
> details about the current feature set, known issues, and plans for
> improving the driver.
>
> The driver is currently available in staging-next git tree, available at:
>
>
> ?git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging-next-2.6.git
>
> in the drivers/staging/brcm80211 directory.
>
> ---
> Henry Ptasinski
> henryp@broadcom.com
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