On 06/28/2012 06:17 PM, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> 2012/6/28 Rafał Miłecki <[email protected]>:
>> 2012/6/28 Hauke Mehrtens <[email protected]>:
>>> On 06/27/2012 10:14 PM, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
>>>> 2012/6/27 Hauke Mehrtens <[email protected]>:
>>>>> On 06/27/2012 12:21 PM, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
>>>>>> Is there any open driver available for this controller? GPL license?
>>>>>> Or some different?
>>>>>
>>>>> We have support for the older NAND flash controller, but this one is
>>>>> different. I could try to write the driver but for now the Ethernet
>>>>> driver has a higher priority for me. The Broadcom SDK contains code for
>>>>> the NAND flash controller licensed under a GPL compatible license.
>>>>
>>>> For me hacking ethernet is impossible until I get bootable router. I
>>>> can't get that without NAND driver :/
>>>
>>> This code is also licensed under the ISC license.
>>>
>>>>>> 4) Driver for GBit MAC
>>>>>> We don't have GPL one yet. I can fix that with a proper amount of time.
>>>>>
>>>>> A permissive licensed version of this driver is included in the GPL
>>>>> source tar of the Asus RT-AC66U.
>>>>
>>>> Does this license allow modifying the driver and putting it in kernel?
>>>>
>>> This is the ISC license [0], it is also used by Atheros in ath9k.
>>>
>>> Attached is a patch to read out the clock rates. This patch is not even
>>> compile tested, Rafał could you test it and report back.
>>
>> I've no idea how to apply that. It doesn't apply on OpenWRT-patched
>> 3.3.8. Do you have some patch moving OpenWRT to more recent kernel?

Currently we have kernel version freeze, because we are planing a new
release. The backport patches for bcma and ssb are containing most of
the code currently in wireless testing.

>> But even in wireless-testing I can't see defines for chip ids.
> 
> OK, I've found that patch posted on linux-wireless. Still, some trick
> to move OpenWRT to more recent kernel?

Yes, I based it on my other bcma patches.

> 
> P.S.
> Is there some hack to make build_dir/linux-brcm47xx/linux-X.Y.Z a git
> repository? So I can modify kernel source in that directory and use
> "git diff", "git commit" etc?
Yes that is possible see "Advanced configuration options (for
developers)" and "Use external kernel tree" or the other two options
under that.

Hauke
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