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#Broadcom

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"[T]he innovations in digital signal processing architectures pioneered at UCLA and Broadcom persist in the digital modems that enable both wired and wireless communications in our devices. For these advances, along with contributions to expanding science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education, [Henry] Samueli is the recipient of the 2025 IEEE Medal of Honor."

spectrum.ieee.org/henry-samuel

IEEE Spectrum · This Man Made the Modem in Your Phone a RealityBy Tekla S. Perry

On two ThinkPad/AMD Laptops with Broadcom WiFi adapter (ath11k_pci driver), I had serious issues with system hangs when WiFi was connecting and on resume from sleep (s2idle) in Fedora 42 with Linux kernel 6.14.2.

I Created a BugZilla entry and reported the issue to Fedora Bodhi. Several people reported the same issues there.

Now Linux 6.14.3 arrived in Fedora testing and resolved both issues :-) Now everything works without issues again!

Awesome work!

bodhi.fedoraproject.org/update

Installing the fix, that currently is in testing: sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2025-0341e0131a

bodhi.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2025-0341e0131a — bugfix update for kernel and kernel-headers — Fedora Updates Systemmanagement of Fedora Project updates

How to scare away your customers, exhibit 4821: #Broadcom #VMware:

"VMware distributor Arrow says minimum software subs set to jump from 16 to 72 cores.
Claims Broadcom will levy 20 percent #penalty for customers who don’t pay before renewal deadlines"

theregister.com/2025/03/28/arr

I don't know you, but if I were a customer for that product, I'd most probably start migration projects today.

The Register · VMware distributor Arrow says minimum software subs set to jump from 16 to 72 coresBy Simon Sharwood