Re: On brcm80211 maintenance and support

From: Hector Martin
Date: Sat Oct 07 2023 - 08:51:12 EST


On 07/10/2023 00.48, Dmitry Antipov wrote:
> On 10/6/23 18:34, Hector Martin wrote:
>
>> For better or worse, if nobody else does, I'm willing to sign up to
>> maintain the chips shipping on Apple ARM64 machines (i.e. BCM4378,
>> BCM4387, BCM4388 - that last one I have bringup for downstream, just got
>> it done this week) and partially BCM4377 as a bonus (since I have access
>> to an older Intel Mac with that one, and already did bringup for it,
>> though my access is sporadic). I'm already playing part time maintainer
>> anyway (other folks have already sent us patches I'll have to upstream),
>> and we need this driver to keep working and continue to support new chips.
>
> Good news. Would you capable to consider some generic (not hooked to any
> particular hardware) things like [1] ?
>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-wireless/20230703162458.155942-1-dmantipov@xxxxxxxxx/
>

Sure, I've done cleanup type stuff myself too.

- Hector