Return-path: Received: from mms3.broadcom.com ([216.31.210.19]:4490 "EHLO MMS3.broadcom.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753130Ab1FXWjM (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Jun 2011 18:39:12 -0400 Message-ID: <4E0511FE.3070701@broadcom.com> (sfid-20110625_003917_403249_4DB82ADC) Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 15:38:54 -0700 From: "Henry Ptasinski" MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Dan Carpenter" cc: "Henry Ptasinski" , "julie Sullivan" , "Roland Vossen" , "devel@linuxdriverproject.org" , "gregkh@suse.de" , "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" , "Henry Ptasinski" Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/21] staging: brcm80211: code cleanup and fullmac bugfix References: <1307630701-9170-1-git-send-email-rvossen@broadcom.com> <20110609185420.GK4069@shale.localdomain> <4DF1D0A5.8080300@broadcom.com> <20110612190045.GB3583@shale.localdomain> <20110614175035.GE9280@broadcom.com> In-Reply-To: <20110614175035.GE9280@broadcom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 06/14/2011 10:50 AM, Henry Ptasinski wrote: > On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 12:00:45PM -0700, Dan Carpenter wrote: > >> On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 07:23:27PM +0100, julie Sullivan wrote: >> >>>> I am using GregKH's staging-next repo: >>>> git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging-2.6.git >>>> >>>> >>> >>>> The patch applies on top of 5ad7b85b90e30eb5af4fbf6ce21907a2bd8934df. >>>> >>>> Bye, Roland. >>>> >>>> >>> OK, this compiles fine on x86-64/SMP. It's probably not interesting >>> but there are just a few warnings: >>> >>> >> Yeah. The driver only works under 32 bit. This is listed in the >> TODO file as something to fix before it leaves staging. >> >> > At the moment, we haven't really seen any interest in 64-bit support with sdio > (almost all actual usage is 32-bit ARM as far as I can tell), but it will > definitely get more relevant when we add USB support to brcmfmac. We'll work > on getting it up and running, but any help would be appreciated. > > Is it safe to assume the related modules (mmc.ko, etc) work on 64-bit? > > - Henry I've verified that the brcmfmac driver works on 64-bit x86 kernels. There are a few compiler warnings that we'll clean up. - Henry