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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] brcmfmac: add the BRCM 4364 found in MacBook Pro 15,2
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On January 26, 2020 8:34:18 PM "brian m. carlson" 
<sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> wrote:

> The 2018 13" MacBook Pro (MacBookPro15,2) has a Broadcom chip, the 4364.
> This chip appears to be specific to Apple and is not found in other
> hardware.
>
> Add this chip to the brcmfmac driver so that it can be recognized
> automatically.  Note that the PCI device id is 4464 even though the chip
> is referred to as the 4364.

So what is the plan regarding firmware. In the previous patch you mentioned 
it can be copied from macos, but I am not sure if that is acceptable from 
legal perspective. At least Linux distributions will have problem with that 
for sure.

Regards,
Arend