On Monday 01 June 2009 23:47:06 matthieu castet wrote: > Ok but what prevent b43 to support core 4 chip with v4 firmware like the > broadcom driver does ? > I am aware that the current driver doesn't support it, but what are the > missing part to support it ? Recent broadcom drivers do not support <=rev4 anymore. There are lots of differences between those devices and devices >=rev5. So we chose to fork it. That's it. It's as simple as that. Why does it surprise you that much? Lots of other devices require a separate driver for legacy devices, too. -- Greetings, Michael. -- 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
