Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 14 Dec 2007 16:58:09 -0800 | From | Larry Finger <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex |
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Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > Actually, can you explain why, from the technical point of view, the version 4 > firware is better than version 3, please?
I will be very interested in Michael's answer to this question; however, my experience is that it doesn't make much difference if your device is supported by both V3 and V4 firmware. This impression was obtained by comparing BCM4318 and BCM4311/1 devices with b43 and b43legacy.
Note that 802.11b and early BCM4306 devices are not supported by V4 firmware. Similarly, with BCM4311/2 and newer devices V3 firmware fails. As Michael said "newer drivers supporting newer hardware need newer firmware".
Larry
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