Trying to add support of 802.11ac broadcom chpiset to openwrt

Hi,
i am trying to implement on a smart city network a solution based on high end home routers like the asus RT-AC66U.
we want to use openwrt for that but unfortunately the broadcom driver isn't yet supported.
I have one rt-ac66u here for development, there is anything that i can do for help?
i came here after a suggestion of one member on openwrt forum:
https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?pid=217341#p217341

i also read this past email:
http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-wireless/msg110443.html

Thx for attention.
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Quoted 11 lines · Alessandro Gnagni

Hi,
i am trying to implement on a smart city network a solution based on high end home routers like the asus RT-AC66U.
we want to use openwrt for that but unfortunately the broadcom driver isn't yet supported.
I have one rt-ac66u here for development, there is anything that i can do for help?
i came here after a suggestion of one member on openwrt forum:
https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?pid=217341#p217341

Quoted 2 lines

i also read this past email:
http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-wireless/msg110443.html

Not sure what 11ac chipset is used. The upstream brcm80211 drivers currently only support one 11ac chipset, ie. the bcm4335. This is a single stream with SDIO host interface supported by the fullmac driver brcmfmac.

For chipsets like 4360 we need to add AC phy support to brcmsmac. So far we do not have green light to do so.

Regards,
Arend

Quoted 23 lines · Arend van Spriel

Quoted 11 lines · Alessandro Gnagni

Hi,
i am trying to implement on a smart city network a solution based on high end home routers like the asus RT-AC66U.
we want to use openwrt for that but unfortunately the broadcom driver isn't yet supported.
I have one rt-ac66u here for development, there is anything that i can do for help?
i came here after a suggestion of one member on openwrt forum:
https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?pid=217341#p217341

Quoted 2 lines

i also read this past email:
http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-wireless/msg110443.html

Not sure what 11ac chipset is used. The upstream brcm80211 drivers currently only support one 11ac chipset, ie. the bcm4335. This is a single stream with SDIO host interface supported by the fullmac driver brcmfmac.

For chipsets like 4360 we need to add AC phy support to brcmsmac. So far we do not have green light to do so.

Quoted 2 lines

Regards,
Arend

Hiya,

Is this still the status quo? I'd like to start porting updated broadcom support to FreeBSD for Apple Macintosh users who would like 11ac NIC support.