On 27/08/11 11:22, Rafał Miłecki wrote: > 2011/8/27 James Anslow <ja...@jamesanslow.net>: >> On 26/08/11 19:41, Rafał Miłecki wrote: >>> After improving DMA (the important patch for BCM4331 is my one) we can >>> finally >>> enable support for HT-PHY. The whole code has been written from MMIO dumps >>> grabbed from ndiswrapper+windows driver, but seems to be stable and was >>> tested >>> by 3 people. Unfortunately there are still some missing conditions that >>> can't >>> be fixed without RE the closed driver or having Broadcom co-operating. >>> However >>> it seems we live with that well enough for basic usage :) >>> >>> BCM4331 doesn't have any Linux driver yet, both: wl and brcm80211 don't >>> support >>> it. So we can be really proud of it ;) Ah, and I should mention that >>> ndiswrapper >>> was frequently reported to lock up machines when working with this card (see >>> Ubuntu's forum about MacBook 8.1). >>> >>> To use b43 with BCM4331 you will need to grab the newest b43-fwcutter and >>> extract firmware from some recent closed source driver. See our wiki page in >>> few hours for nice howto. >>> >>> Big thanks go to David Woodhouse for providing me access to his MacBook, >>> letting >>> grab the dumps, test patches and debugging a lot of hard cases with me (and >>> sometime without ;) ). >>> >>> Larry Finger (1): >>> b43: Relax requirement for descriptors to be in the DMA zone >>> >>> Rafał Miłecki (2): >>> b43: use 8K buffers for 64-bit DMA to workaround hardware bug >>> b43: make HT-PHY support experimental >>> >>> drivers/net/wireless/b43/Kconfig | 6 +++--- >>> drivers/net/wireless/b43/dma.c | 31 ++++++++++++++++--------------- >>> drivers/net/wireless/b43/dma.h | 3 ++- >>> 3 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-) >>> >> I've checked the wiki page and downloads area but the latest version of >> fwcutter that I could find was from several days ago. >> >> Can anyone direct me towards the latest b43-fwcutter download as >> mentioned above? >> >> Can't wait to get 4331 support! > Just use the howto for kernel 3.2 (I know it's a little tricky for now > to use 3.2, wireless-next is also OK for that howto): > http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#Other_distributions_not_mentioned_above > > You have to: > 1) Clone git repository wireless-next > 2) Apply 3 patches from this patchset > 3) Compile kernel with B43_PHY_HT > 4) Install firmware (I think you already started that part) > > b43-fwcutter in 015 version is alright for extracting 666.2 firmware. > Thanks for your support on this.
I'm not too knowledgeable when it comes to kernel development. However, I am eager to learn. I've cloned the repo and have wireless-next. Can you tell me where I will find these 3 patches to apply them to wireless-next? Many thanks
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