sourcecode of broadcom drivers up to 2011 yr sup

[Adrian Chadd]

Heh, well, I can't use it for porting anything to freebsd. broadcom
aren't interested in open sourcing their reference driver.

The only open source we get from broadcom is brcmfmac/brcmsmac, which
broadcom manage. It's missing older chips (eg PHY-LP, PHY-G) and the
PHY-AC softmac port (BCM4360.)



-adrian


On 17 November 2016 at 12:42, paradox via freebsd-wireless
<freebsd-wireless at freebsd.org> wrote:
> if Anrian already have access to source code of broadcom, its great ! i don't known about it
>
> about of licensing, the sourcecode can be porting to freebsd but not including to kernel, seems many people tobe  enougth this
>
>
> --------------------------------------------
> On Thu, 11/17/16, Felix Friedlander <felixphew0 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  Subject: Re: sourcecode of broadcom drivers up to 2011 yr sup
>  To: "paradox" <ddkprog at yahoo.com>
>  Cc: freebsd-wireless at freebsd.org
>  Date: Thursday, November 17, 2016, 10:32 PM
>
>
>  > On 18 Nov. 2016, at 05:36, paradox via freebsd-wireless
>  <freebsd-wireless at freebsd.org>
>  wrote:
>  >
>  > seems all BCM WIFI PHY & MAC sourcecode of
>  ABG/N/LP/NT/SSN
>  > hope your can build it or take part for independ module
>
>  > MAC
>  > https://github.com/elenril/VMG1312-B/tree/master/bcmdrivers/broadcom/net/wl/impl10/wl/sys
>  > PHY
>  > https://github.com/elenril/VMG1312-B/tree/master/bcmdrivers/broadcom/net/wl/impl10/wl/phy
>
>  There’s a difference between finding the code, and having
>  a licence to use it… If I’m not mistaken Adrian already
>  has access to the proprietary Broadcom driver through his
>  work, it’s more of a licensing issue.
>
>  Still a nice find though, with this and the Cypress
>  datasheets some things may become a bit easier.
>
>  --
>  Felix Friedlander <felixphew0 at gmail.com>
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