linux-kernel - Re: On brcm80211 maintenance and support

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Message-ID: <e470902a-35eb-9bb4-7a9e-167f985c98bb@marcan.st>
Date:   Sat, 7 Oct 2023 21:50:56 +0900
From:   Hector Martin <marcan@...can.st>
To:     Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov@...dex.ru>
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 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@yandex.ru/
> 

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

- Hector