On Thursday 09 August 2007 16:46:40 Larry Finger wrote: > Michael Buesch wrote: > > > Newer drivers don't contain support for wireless core ref < 5 > > anymore. So I suggest we support <5 devices with the legacy > > driver using v3 firmware. And anything above with v4 firmware > > with upstream bcm43xx-mac80211. > > That's actually a nice cutoff point, as rev 5 is when they > > started using the new microcode format. > > A cutoff for wireless core rev < 5 means that bcm43-legacy will support > BCM4301, BCM4303 and > BCM4306/2. I have a BCM4301 and two BCM4306/2 cards, thus I'm in a good > position to support that > driver branch. There are no 4303's in the database - I'm not sure they exist > in the wild. If anyone > reading this has one, please report it through > http://bcm-specs.sipsolutions.net/.
There will be a problem with the PCI IDs, though. We can't see from the PCI ID if that's a v4 or v5 device. So we have to make _one_ common ssb-pci wrapper and let us probe from ssb, so that either b43 or b43legacy is loaded. I'll take a look to figure out how that works. Shouldn't be too hard. The probing is done through the ssb device table in the driver, where you can put the supported core revs. -- Greetings Michael. _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
