Messages in this thread | | | From | Michael Buesch <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex | Date | Sun, 16 Dec 2007 12:13:15 +0100 |
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On Sunday 16 December 2007 03:30:16 Larry Finger wrote: > Michael Buesch wrote: > > On Sunday 16 December 2007 00:18:43 Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > >> Well, the only problem with that is I suspect there are some "newer" cards that > >> work better with v3 firmware, although they are supposed to support both. > > > > And I suspect that you are wrong until you show me one. :) > > The BCM4311/1 card used to work better with bcm43xx than it did with b43; however, since the power > control problem was "solved" in b43, there is very little difference. When I built my special system > to use the BCM4311 with b43legacy, there was no difference. > > I don't know of any cards that work better with bcm43xx than with b43. Of course, that is comparing > SoftMAC with mac80211. There is, of course, no comparison.
This was about version 3 firmware vs version 4 firmware. I doubt the firmware makes any difference at all.
-- Greetings Michael.
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