Support for Broadcom BCM4360 through something like Ndiswrapper?

Hi,
On my router's (Asus RT-AC87U) support page (https://openwrt.org/toh/asus/rt-ac87u) it reads that WiFi module is not available because there are no Linux drivers available for Broadcom BCM4360 chipset.

I was wondering whether it would be possible to use something like Ndiswrapper (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/Ndiswrapper) to use drivers from Windows where proprietary drivers for Linux aren't made available by the vendor?
Not only for this particular chip, but also any other ones where you don't have a linux package.
Even if including the packaged driver in the distro is not possible, maybe a sh script/tutorial to add it ourselves would be of help.

Thanks in advance!

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Ndiswrapper could only (sort of) work on x86 machines because the available DOS/Windows driver binaries are built for x86. An ARM or MIPS processor simply can't run them.

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