Return-path: Received: from mail-gw1-out.broadcom.com ([216.31.210.62]:17548 "EHLO mail-gw1-out.broadcom.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754114AbaA0VgR (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Jan 2014 16:36:17 -0500 Message-ID: <52E6D148.5020703@broadcom.com> (sfid-20140127_223634_149784_3659A64F) Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 22:36:08 +0100 From: Arend van Spriel MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Adrian Chadd CC: Alessandro Gnagni , "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: Trying to add support of 802.11ac broadcom chpiset to openwrt References: <52821B80.6000305@gmail.com> <52826A82.3010505@broadcom.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 01/27/2014 08:10 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote: > On 12 November 2013 09:50, Arend van Spriel wrote: >> On 11/12/2013 01:13 PM, Alessandro Gnagni wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> i am trying to implement on a smart city network a solution based on >>> high end home routers like the asus RT-AC66U. >>> we want to use openwrt for that but unfortunately the broadcom driver >>> isn't yet supported. >>> I have one rt-ac66u here for development, there is anything that i can >>> do for help? >>> i came here after a suggestion of one member on openwrt forum: >>> https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?pid=217341#p217341 >>> >>> i also read this past email: >>> http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-wireless/msg110443.html >> >> >> Not sure what 11ac chipset is used. The upstream brcm80211 drivers currently >> only support one 11ac chipset, ie. the bcm4335. This is a single stream with >> SDIO host interface supported by the fullmac driver brcmfmac. >> >> For chipsets like 4360 we need to add AC phy support to brcmsmac. So far we >> do not have green light to do so. >> >> Regards, >> Arend > > Hiya, > > Is this still the status quo? I'd like to start porting updated > broadcom support to FreeBSD for Apple Macintosh users who would like > 11ac NIC support. Hi Adrian, Interesting. A while ago someone wanted to port brcmsmac to a BSD flavor (not sure which one). Now brcmsmac as-is today uses BCMA bus driver which goes under GPL-v2, which may or may not be a problem. Apple Mac users probably have 4360 and that hurdle is also still there. Gr. AvS