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Re: b43 will need a firmware upgrade soon

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On Sunday 06 January 2008 21:34:35 John W. Linville wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 06:02:38PM +0100, Michael Buesch wrote:
> 
> > This is needed in order to add support for new devices (N-PHY).
> > Broadcom changed the ABI of the firmware, so we are forced to also
> > change the ABI of the driver.
> 
> Do we have reasonable confidence that the newer firmware will run
> on all the devices currently supported by b43?  Or are we looking at
> another b43legacy type of situation?

We need to check this.
Maybe we can support both firmware images in the driver. Not sure yet.

-- 
Greetings Michael.
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