HISTORY.md

History

There are various versions of the Broadcom CrystalHD (BCM70012 and BCM70015) drivers floating around the web.

Here are the ones I've found, roughly in order of most obsolete/broken to newest:

1. Staging driver from Linux kernel v3.16 version — this version was removed in 2014 from v3.17 due to the fact that it was unmaintained and obsolete; it only supported the BCM70012 chip, for example.

• See this LKML kernel thread from 2013 where Steven Newbury and Greg K-H discuss this code: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/10/27/103

2. The Debian version, which appears to be based on a ~2010 version of the code from the mainline kernel, and like it only supports the BCM70012 chip.

3. Jarod Wilson's tree, last updated in 2012: http://git.linuxtv.org/cgit.cgi/jarod/crystalhd.git/

4. @yeradis's tree, forked from Jarod's tree, and last updated in 2013: https://github.com/yeradis/crystalhd

5. @dbason's tree, forked from Yeradis's tree, and last updated in 2016: https://github.com/dbason/crystalhd

6. @linuxgorl's tree, forked from dbason's tree, compiles on >= Linux 5.10. https://github.com/linuxgorl/crystalhd

Only the last version can be built and used without error on a modern kernel. (@dlenski is using it with kernel 4.4.0 and BCM70015.)