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On Friday 23 January 2009 20:46:45 Francesco Gringoli wrote:
> -- Is using the Broadcom names for the firmware the best course of
> -- action? What if the opensource firmware files were named something
> -- like "os-ucode5.fw", etc. and b43 were coded to check for those files
> -- first? It would then fall back to the standard firmware if the
> -- opensource version is not found.

I answered to this question with this patch:
http://bu3sch.de/patches/wireless-testing/20081227-1821/patches/008-b43-probe-open-fw.patch

I am currently testing an updated version of the patch and I'll push it upstream tomorrow.

-- 
Greetings, Michael.
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