Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 12 Oct 2023 09:25:45 -0700 | Subject | Re: On brcm80211 maintenance and support | From | Florian Fainelli <> |
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On 10/12/23 01:41, Arend van Spriel wrote: [snip] >> I have a patch to enable WPA3 in Broadcom chipsets (yes, the driver is >> in such a sorry state it doesn't even support that yet). The current >> support attempt was added by a Cypress engineer and uses a completely >> different firmware mechanism. Is that supposed to actually work? Does it >> work currently? Is that the case for all Cypress firmwares? Or only >> some? Does the alternate mechanism we have for Broadcom chips work too? >> Only Cypress can answer those questions ahead of time, and they aren't >> (they ignored me last time I brought this up). So my current patch just >> replaces the mechanism with the known-working one for Broadcom chips. > > This is mainly why I introduced the vendor-split concept so we can keep > the Cypress mechanism and allow a different mechanism for Broadcom > chips. The Cypress mechanism did not work for the Broadcom chips I have > so I wanted to test it on the Cypress chips I got shipped long ago and > they simply do not come up. Have not tried with RPi as it is not running > vanilla kernel. Could try with a backports driver.
You can run mainline on all of the Raspberry Pi devices, as far as Wi-Fi is concerned I cannot think of any major roadblocks, if not, email me privately and we can figure this one out. -- Florian
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