W dniu 21 września 2011 15:52 użytkownik Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@xxxxxxxxx> napisał: > 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.) The reason I've added support for new firmware without dropping support for older, was users experience. I didn't want to leave anyone with b43 not working after kernel update (without firmware update). -- Rafał _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
