Re: [PATCH 00/13] wifi: brcmfmac: Add BCM4388 support

From: Janne Grunau

Date: Mon Nov 02 2026 - 16:27:06 EST


On Sun, Nov 01, 2026 at 08:27:22PM +0100, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> + Peter, Izabela
>
> On 25/09/2026 15:43, Michael Reeves via B4 Relay wrote:
> > The Broadcom BCM4388 chipset requires new PCIe initialization and
> > firmware interfaces. Add support for these interfaces to brcmfmac to
> > enable basic station operation.
> >
> > This series adds:
> > - Signed firmware loading and mailbox transport
> > - Fixes for chip identification and firmware capability matching
> > - Versioned scan and join requests, and extended PMK payloads
> > - Updated event mask handling
> >
> > These changes include work by Hector Martin and Daniel Berlin from Asahi
> > Linux, refactored where needed for upstream inclusion.
> >
> > The series provides basic station support only. 6 GHz support is planned
> > for a follow-up patchset after this lands. The driver retains legacy
> > interfaces for older firmware.
> >
> > Tested on an Apple M3 MacBook Air (J613):
> > - Device boot and network scanning
> > - 5 GHz WPA2-PSK association and DHCP
> > - Bidirectional TCP traffic
>
> Finally got some time to get this series tested on my setup. The patches
> generally look good. So far no regressions observed. It would be good if
> some more people could test this series on their equipment. I will do
> some more testing and wait some days.

Tested series on top of v7.3 + commit 7ed5dce55fa8 ("wifi: brcmfmac: map
msgbuf RX packet IDs bidirectional") in wireless/main with resolving the
conflict by dropping the conflicting hunk of this series.

Tested on Mac mini (M1, BCM4378) and Macbook Pro 14-inch (M1 Max,
BCM4387) without regressions (except for the resolved RX msgbuf
mapping).

Tested-by: Janne Grunau <j@xxxxxxxxxx>

thanks,

Janne