Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 10:24 +0100, Gregers Petersen wrote:
>> I believe it is appropriate to mention that the developer-group as a
>> whole has been, and is, very hard working and in lack of adequate time -
>> unfortunately this makes "slips-of-the-mind" possible, and I can only
>> make a note in this regard.
>
> That is fair enough. Which is why I posted it here myself.
>
> The main reason for my posting the announcement however was not to point
> out that it slipped somebody's mind but rather to comment on what is
> being promised as functioning in the release and how my own and others'
> experiences are in conflict with those promises.
>
> Do you really think it's fair to call the current b43 AP mode functional
> given the two major defects that have been reported; those being the
> huge softirq (beating the crap out of the CPU) and the wireless
> connection dropping after some amount of data being pushed through it?
>
> Maybe there is a plan to fix those before the final release, but in that
> case I think the RC1 notice should have made note of the known issues
> and the plan to have them fixed by the release.
>
In as much as this is RC1 we're talking about - then it is not
completely unlikely that the final release text will have a differet
text from the present. This means that the specifics about B43
functionality are highly prone to change.
I read your comment as a bug-report to the release-text, and again a
note has been made - We are all interested in having things move ahead,
but the issues with brcm, 2.6 kernel and wifi are complex.
There has been reports/feedback about B43 AP mode going in different
directions, so the best everyone can do is to test RC1 and return with
specific information.
> Unfortunately I'm not a kernel-space developer so I don't know how to go
> about figuring out why the softirq is so high -- or I would, given that
> it was reported on the openwrt-users list as trivial to discover.
> Trivial for somebody who understands the intricacies of the kernel and
> interrupt handlers and so on I guess.
>
Chz
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