W dniu 21 września 2011 15:40 użytkownik John W. Linville <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> napisał: > On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 10:56:49PM +0200, Rafał Miłecki wrote: >> 2011/9/20 Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: >> > On Tue, 2011-09-20 at 06:03 -0700, Greg KH wrote: >> > >> >> And while code is great and nice, I still haven't seen any real answers >> >> to all of the questions that were asked of the Broadcom driver team >> >> during that review by the linux-wireless developers about how things >> >> will be handled properly due to the overlap in functionality with the >> >> existing "real" driver in the tree. >> > >> > Let's qualify this to "some developers". >> > >> > One thing I'd like to point out is that the Broadcom's firmware API has >> > always undergone changes over time. I'm actually surprised that b43 >> > works as well as it does (which, tbh, isn't very well at all, at least >> > for me with some 11n PHY). I also don't think that Broadcom are going to >> > maintain compatibility and/or maintain new firmware features for old >> > devices, that just doesn't make any sense. >> >> Actually, when we got some single response from Broadcom about their >> relation to b43, they haven't mentioned support for old HW is any >> problem at all. They just pointed we don't support calibration for >> N-PHY and we don't support 802.11n feature for a better performance. >> >> I feel we're creating some problems ourself. Just some guessing that >> support for older HW can be real problem for future development... not >> confirmed by anyone at all. > > Their new firmware doesn't run on the older hardware, no? AFAIK it does (unless you mean hardware covered by b43legacy). If you take a look at 666.2 firmware, it's still available for core 5 (and 9, 13, etc.) -- Rafał _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
