linux-kernel - Re: On brcm80211 maintenance and support

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Date:   Fri, 6 Oct 2023 18:48:02 +0300
From:   Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov@...dex.ru>
To:     Hector Martin <marcan@...can.st>
Cc:     "linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
        "lvc-project@...uxtesting.org" <lvc-project@...uxtesting.org>,
        Arend van Spriel <aspriel@...il.com>,
        Franky Lin <franky.lin@...adcom.com>,
        Hante Meuleman <hante.meuleman@...adcom.com>,
        SHA-cyfmac-dev-list@...ineon.com,
        brcm80211-dev-list.pdl@...adcom.com,
        Asahi Linux <asahi@...ts.linux.dev>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Kalle Valo <kvalo@...nel.org>,
        Julian Calaby <julian.calaby@...il.com>
Subject: Re: On brcm80211 maintenance and support

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@yandex.ru/

Dmitry