For hardware vendors that will build solutions with the BCM58522, Linux is going to be the primary operating system.
Broadcom has a Linux Development Kit (LDK) for hardware vendors to get a full solution
up and running. In terms of which Linux distribution that Broadcom is using, Wood noted it’s just plain vanilla Linux and not from a commercial Linux distributor.
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