On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 09:32:39PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 01:26:25PM -0600, Larry Finger wrote: > > > My plan is to continue to maintain bcm43xx-SoftMAC for at least the BPHY and 4306 revisions even > > after d80211 becomes the in-kernel driver. Of course, I hope that we will have found the killer bugs > > by that time, and that maintenance will only require following kernel API changes. > > Just to make sure I'm understanding this correctly - does the v4 > firmware drop compatibility for older cards, or is it just that Broadcom > dropped support in the driver at the same time as the firmware changed, > and the new firmware will still also drive the old cards? We can't extract bcm43xx_microcode2.fw from v4 drivers. You need this file for old rev2+3 0x812 cores. So we don't know what firmware we should load into those old cores. I think broadcom never developed a new v4 style firmware for their old hardware. Martin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
