Bug#649567: linux-2.6: Please enable BCMA and BCMA_HOST_PCI
Source: linux-2.6 Version: 3.1.1-1 Severity: wishlist Hi, Please consider enabling BCMA (BCMA support) as a module, along with BCMA_HOST_PCI (Support for BCMA on PCI-host bus). BCMA was explicitly disabled for linux-2.6 in its subversion repository at revision 17519. Enabling these would allow the b43 driver to receive BCMA bus support (B43_BCMA, enabled by default) and operate Broadcom BCM43224 and BCM43225 based PCIe wireless LAN devices; BCM4331 (HT-PHY) support is anticipated for Linux 3.2. A consequence of enabling BCMA_HOST_PCI is the addition of device IDs to the produced bcma module, four of these are claimed by the brcmsmac part of the brcm80211 staging driver. Geoff -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#649567: linux-2.6: Please enable BCMA and BCMA_HOST_PCI
On Tue, 2011-11-22 at 19:20 +1100, Geoff Simmons wrote: Source: linux-2.6 Version: 3.1.1-1 Severity: wishlist Hi, Please consider enabling BCMA (BCMA support) as a module, along with BCMA_HOST_PCI (Support for BCMA on PCI-host bus). BCMA was explicitly disabled for linux-2.6 in its subversion repository at revision 17519. Enabling these would allow the b43 driver to receive BCMA bus support (B43_BCMA, enabled by default) and operate Broadcom BCM43224 and BCM43225 based PCIe wireless LAN devices; BCM4331 (HT-PHY) support is anticipated for Linux 3.2. A consequence of enabling BCMA_HOST_PCI is the addition of device IDs to the produced bcma module, four of these are claimed by the brcmsmac part of the brcm80211 staging driver. brcmsmac apparently has better support for these devices, and is moving out of staging in 3.2. So whatever we do, we shouldn't enable those device IDs in b43 as well. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Teamwork is essential - it allows you to blame someone else. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Bug#649567: linux-2.6: Please enable BCMA and BCMA_HOST_PCI
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 02:44:13PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Tue, 2011-11-22 at 19:20 +1100, Geoff Simmons wrote: Enabling these would allow the b43 driver to receive BCMA bus support (B43_BCMA, enabled by default) and operate Broadcom BCM43224 and BCM43225 based PCIe wireless LAN devices; BCM4331 (HT-PHY) support is anticipated for Linux 3.2. A consequence of enabling BCMA_HOST_PCI is the addition of device IDs to the produced bcma module, four of these are claimed by the brcmsmac part of the brcm80211 staging driver. brcmsmac apparently has better support for these devices, and is moving out of staging in 3.2. So whatever we do, we shouldn't enable those device IDs in b43 as well. OK. Could only the BCM4331 device ID (14e4:4331) be referenced in bcma/host_pci.c as an alternative? This device is found in the MacBookPro8,1/2/3 and TTBOMK is not currently supported by brcmsmac (per recognized PCI IDs in brcmsmac/mac80211_if.c) or the out-of-tree broadcom-sta driver. Geoff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
