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BCM43362 support - possible ?

DISCUSSION Werner Almesberger 2 participants 3 messages Jun 11, 2013

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I have a client who is quite enthralled by some BCM43362-based modules and wants to use them with a Free operating system (probably FreeRTOS, but Linux may be a possibility as well, and even more so as an intermediate development step). This chip is from the WICED series.

As far as I can tell, the BCM43362 is not supported by Linux at the moment and hasn't even been mentioned in that context. So I wonder whether the existing brcmfmac driver could be made to work with the BCM43362 or whether there are major technical or licensing issues.

If necessary, I wouldn't mind helping (in a few weeks) to get that chip to work under Linux.

Thanks !

- Werner

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2013/6/11 Werner Almesberger <[email protected]>:

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I have a client who is quite enthralled by some BCM43362-based modules and wants to use them with a Free operating system (probably FreeRTOS, but Linux may be a possibility as well, and even more so as an intermediate development step). This chip is from the WICED series.

WICED doesn't say much. Is that full mac device?

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As far as I can tell, the BCM43362 is not supported by Linux at the moment and hasn't even been mentioned in that context. So I wonder whether the existing brcmfmac driver could be made to work with the BCM43362 or whether there are major technical or licensing issues.

I don't know. What about asking brcmfmac developers?
http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/brcm80211

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WICED doesn't say much. Is that full mac device?

Yes, as far as I can tell (public information on it is scarce), it's a FullMAC with an SDIO interface.

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I don't know. What about asking brcmfmac developers?
http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/brcm80211

Oh, I see. I thought b43* and b43-legacy were the only branches of that tree. Sorry about that.

- Werner