staging: brcm80211: updated MAINTAINERS, README and TODO files

README now only contains a link to the brcm80211 driver page. Two maintainers
have been added, one deleted. TODO file has also been updated.

Signed-off-by: Roland Vossen <rvossen@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Roland Vossen 2011-06-01 13:44:56 +02:00 committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent 5688aac73d
commit 85d63686d8
3 changed files with 14 additions and 68 deletions

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BROADCOM BRCM80211 IEEE802.11n WIRELESS DRIVER
M: Brett Rudley <brudley@broadcom.com>
M: Henry Ptasinski <henryp@broadcom.com>
M: Dowan Kim <dowan@broadcom.com>
M: Roland Vossen <rvossen@broadcom.com>
M: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
M: Franky (Zhenhui) Lin <frankyl@broadcom.com>
M: Kan Yan <kanyan@broadcom.com>
L: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
S: Supported
F: drivers/staging/brcm80211/

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Broadcom brcmsmac (mac80211-based softmac PCIe) and brcmfmac (SDIO) drivers.
Completely open source host drivers, no binary object files.
Support for the following chips:
===============================
brcmsmac (PCIe)
Name Device ID
BCM4313 0x4727
BCM43224 0x4353
BCM43225 0x4357
brcmfmac (SDIO)
Name
BCM4329
Both brcmsmac and brcmfmac drivers require firmware files that need to be
separately downloaded.
Firmware
======================
Firmware is available from the Linux firmware repository at:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dwmw2/linux-firmware.git
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/dwmw2/linux-firmware.git
https://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/dwmw2/linux-firmware.git
===============================================================
Broadcom brcmsmac driver
===============================================================
- Support for both 32 and 64 bit Linux kernels
Firmware installation
======================
Copy brcm/bcm43xx-0.fw and brcm/bcm43xx_hdr-0.fw to
/lib/firmware/brcm (or wherever firmware is normally installed
on your system).
===============================================================
Broadcom brcmfmac driver
===============================================================
- Support for 32 bit Linux kernel, 64 bit untested
Firmware installation
======================
Copy brcm/bcm4329-fullmac-4.bin and brcm/bcm4329-fullmac-4.txt
to /lib/firmware/brcm (or wherever firmware is normally installed on your
system).
Contact Info:
=============
Brett Rudley brudley@broadcom.com
Henry Ptasinski henryp@broadcom.com
Dowan Kim dowan@broadcom.com
Roland Vossen rvossen@broadcom.com
Arend van Spriel arend@broadcom.com
For more info, refer to: http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/brcm80211
refer to: http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/brcm80211

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@ -2,14 +2,22 @@ To Do List for Broadcom Mac80211 driver before getting in mainline
Bugs
====
- Oops on AMPDU traffic, to be solved by new ucode (currently under test)
- none known at this moment
brcmfmac and brcmsmac
=====================
- ASSERTS not allowed in mainline, replace by warning + error handling
- Replace printk and WL_ERROR() with proper routines
- Remove unnecessary includes, move #includes from .h files into .c files.
- Absorb and delete header files that are included in only one .c file
brcmfmac
=====================
- ASSERTS not allowed in mainline, replace by warning + error handling
- Replace printk and WL_ERROR() with proper routines
- Replace driver's proprietary ssb interface with generic kernel ssb module
- Build and test on 64 bit linux kernel
brcm80211 info page
=====================
http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/brcm80211