On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 10:24:31PM +0200, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> We really should be documenting supported wifi chipsets to help users
> find devices that will work with OpenBSD.
> The bwfm(4) man page leaves such questions entirely open at present.
> 
> The diff below intends to fill that gap by adding table which lists
> supported devices. The table includes chipset name, supported bands,
> MIMO config, and bus attachments.
> 
> I have cross-checked data in my table with internet searches. Sometimes
> I found official product sheets, but some info is based on tech press
> articles, copies of wikidevi pages, or gleaned from kernel messages
> posted on forums. It should be mostly accurate and much better than
> no info at all.
> 
> Note that some chips support bus attachments which bwfm does not
> recognize. I have documented the bus attachments which the driver
> actually supports, which is a subset of what the chipsets support.
> This list will need to be kept in sync anyway whenever device support
> in the driver is improved.
> 
> While here, also document the hex product IDs in bwfm's sdmmc attachment
> driver in source code comments. These hex numbers actually correspond
> to decimal chipset numbers but that is not immediately obvious so I think
> adding comments is warranted (of course it would be better to use macros,
> but I'm not going to go that far in a documentation patch).
> 
> ok?
>

ok.
jmc

> diff 5c72fbec79072d838dd652f6d7785e8d2b15dab2 /usr/src
> blob - f1df893ec80181f14a37bbc8703739bbca13e316
> file + share/man/man4/bwfm.4
> --- share/man/man4/bwfm.4
> +++ share/man/man4/bwfm.4
> @@ -30,6 +30,36 @@ The
>  driver provides support for Broadcom and Cypress FullMAC network
>  adapters.
>  .Pp
> +The following table summarizes supported chipsets and their capabilites,
> +as well as the bus attachments recognized by the
> +.Nm
> +driver:
> +.Bl -column "Chipset" "Spectrum" "MIMO" "Bus" -offset 6n
> +.It Em Chipset Ta Em Spectrum Ta Em MIMO Ta Em Bus
> +.It BCM43143 Ta 2GHz Ta 1x1 Ta SDMMC/USB
> +.It BCM43236 Ta 2GHz/5GHz Ta 2x2 Ta USB
> +.It BCM4324 Ta  2GHz/5GHz Ta 2x2 Ta SDMMC
> +.It BCM43242 Ta 2GHz/5GHz Ta 2x2 Ta USB
> +.It BCM4329 Ta  2GHz/5GHz Ta 2x2 Ta SDMMC
> +.It BCM4330 Ta  2GHz/5GHz Ta 2x2 Ta SDMMC
> +.It BCM4334 Ta  2GHz/5GHz Ta 2x2 Ta SDMMC
> +.It BCM43340 Ta 2GHz/5GHz Ta 1x1 Ta SDMMC
> +.It BCM43341 Ta 2GHz/5GHz Ta 1x1 Ta SDMMC
> +.It BCM4335 Ta  2GHz/5GHz Ta 1x1 Ta SDMMC
> +.It BCM43362 Ta 2GHz Ta 1x1 Ta SDMMC
> +.It BCM43364 Ta 2GHz Ta 1x1 Ta SDMMC
> +.It BCM4339 Ta  2GHz/5GHz Ta 1x1 Ta SDMMC
> +.It BCM43430 Ta 2GHz Ta 1x1 Ta SDMMC
> +.It BCM43455 Ta  2GHz/5GHz Ta 1x1 Ta SDMMC
> +.It BCM43456 Ta  2GHz/5GHz Ta 2x2 Ta SDMMC
> +.It BCM4350 Ta 2GHz/5GHz Ta 2x2 Ta PCI
> +.It BCM4354 Ta  2GHz/5GHz Ta 2x2 Ta SDMMC
> +.It BCM4356 Ta 2GHz/5GHz Ta 2x2 Ta PCI/SDMMC
> +.It BCM43569 Ta 2GHz/5GHz Ta 2x2 Ta USB
> +.It BCM43602 Ta 2GHz/5GHz Ta 3x3 Ta PCI
> +.It BCM4371 Ta 2GHz/5GHz Ta 2x2 Ta PCI
> +.El
> +.Pp
>  These are the modes the
>  .Nm
>  driver can operate in:
> blob - b053ab936ef10b21834ed74640124d8abe761af2
> file + sys/dev/sdmmc/if_bwfm_sdio.c
> --- sys/dev/sdmmc/if_bwfm_sdio.c
> +++ sys/dev/sdmmc/if_bwfm_sdio.c
> @@ -222,12 +222,12 @@ bwfm_sdio_match(struct device *parent, void *match, vo
>       case 0x4345:
>       case 0x4354:
>       case 0x4356:
> -     case 0xa887:
> -     case 0xa94c:
> -     case 0xa94d:
> -     case 0xa962:
> -     case 0xa9a6:
> -     case 0xa9bf:
> +     case 0xa887:    /* BCM43143 */
> +     case 0xa94c:    /* BCM43340 */
> +     case 0xa94d:    /* BCM43341 */
> +     case 0xa962:    /* BCM43362 */
> +     case 0xa9a6:    /* BCM43430 */
> +     case 0xa9bf:    /* BCM43364 */
>               break;
>       default:
>               return 0;
> 

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