On 09/14/2010 10:13 AM, John W. Linville wrote: > On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 12:31:44PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: >> On Tue, 2010-09-14 at 00:40 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: >>> IIRC they require a firmware blob that has a license that we cannot distribute >>> unlike say the Intel firmwares. I could be wrong though. >> That's still true of the b43 firmware for older (pre-802.11n) devices, >> but the firmware to go with their new driver is now in >> linux-firmware.git. >> >> Their *original* offering of that new firmware had a stupid licence -- >> you could only distribute it if you promised to indemnify and defend >> Broadcom from all related third-party lawsuits. They fixed that though, >> and I merged it. > Nevertheless, everyone I know that has reviewed the newly released > driver code is being treated for eye cancer. I wouldn't expect to > see it in F-14. > > John Can we use the firmware that they have for the existing broadcom wireless driver? Ric -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
