[PATCH] SSB bus support

Johannes Berg johannes at sipsolutions.net
Wed Apr 18 02:33:16 PDT 2007


On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 09:17 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> Most Broadcom chipsets contain a core attached to a custom Broadcom bus, 
> plus glue between that bus and the host bus (PCI in the most common 
> case). At the moment this is an implementation detail hidden in the 
> drivers, but the plan is to split these out so that they're presented as 
> a separate bus hanging off the PCI bus (or whatever). 

Additionally, most Broadcom SoCs consist of an SSB with all things
including the processor hanging off that and PCI hanging off another
core again. That's probably not all that interesting for hal though :)

The b44 networking driver also includes such code at the moment and was
ported over to use SSB.

johannes
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