On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 01:50 -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 09:37:21AM -0800, Dan Williams wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 11:16 -0500, John W. Linville wrote:
> > > On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 11:10:06AM -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 03:55 +0100, Lennert Buytenhek wrote:
> > > > > Hi all,
> > > > >
> > > > > Attached is an initial version of the mwl8k driver for Marvell 88w8xxx
> > > > > PCI/PCIe wireless parts (against 2.6.27.1). This version was written
> > > > > and tested against the 88w8687 (802.11b/g), but it shouldn't be hard to
> > > > > extend the support to other parts in the 8xxx series, since the firmware
> > > > > interface is very similar between parts.
> > > > >
> > > > > There's an occasional timeout warning with mwl8k_stop(), and hardware
> > > > > crypto is still a work-in-progress, but other than that it looks pretty
> > > > > stable.
> > > > >
> > > > > Feedback appreciated!
> > > >
> > > > Oooh, thanks for the Christmas present. Just in time for the holidays.
> > > > Is there a git repo somewhere that we could all base off of, so we don't
> > > > have to deal with patches to patches to patches until it gets into
> > > > wireless-testing?
> > >
> > > I wouldn't worry too much about that. The better questions is where
> > > do we get firmware?
> >
> > I believe I can post it. Marvell recently changed the license terms on
> > at least some of their firmware to be comparable to other freely
> > available firmware (like Intel's). Unfortunately you must have an
> > extranet account to get it (they are working on fixing this too) but
> > once you have it, the firmware blobs themselves are under a nice
> > license. I'll try to get something together today.
>
> The right thing to do (tm) would be to post the firmware along with a
> friendly license by the vendor to the linux-firmware git tree.
>
> Lennert is this possible?
If Lennert doesn't get to it, I believe that I have to power to do so.
New Marvell firmware license (at least for 8687 and 8686 sdio) is below.
It clears Fedora Legal, which is quite stringent.
Dan
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