Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Draft agenda for the kernel summit

[Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>]

On Friday 16 October 2015 08:52:37 Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Thu, 2015-10-15 at 19:41 -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
> the unwillingness of chip
> vendors (hi Broadcom, Qualcomm, MediaTek) to have an upstream driver
> that they actually use (some of those do support an upstream driver,
> but don't ship that one and it doesn't nearly have the necessary
> features, while the actually used (still open source [1]) driver is a
> pile of spaghetti code that we'd probably never merge upstream...)
> 
> [1] except for MediaTek, I think, who seem to never be releasing source
> code for any of their kernels
> 

(getting offtopic here)

My understanding is that MediaTek has improved much recently and their
mt76 wireless driver source is available and getting upstreamed now
and integrated into openwrt now. OTOH, Broadcom apparently regressed and is
no longer releasing any source code to their newer softmac parts (bcm4360,
bcm4352) or patching brcmsmac to support them, while they on the other
hand got better at upstreaming their SoC support recently.

	Arnd