On Thursday 18 March 2010 18:46:35 Larry Finger wrote: > (1) Modify b43-fwcutter to take data from an existing SPROM, Why not extend the ssb-sprom tool? I don't think this has anything to do with firmware, except that we (ab)use the firmware loading mechanism of the kernel for loading the blob into the kernel. > I have chosen to implement this in > fwcutter rather than ssb_sprom because the ordinary user will not have access to > ssb_sprom; Huh? ssb-sprom is GPL software. I have no problem relicensing it under BSD or even something more liberal. I don't see a problem for "ordinary users" here. > however, they do have a version of fwcutter supplied by the distro. Well, but that version won't do anything on the SPROM, too. > It it reasonable to keep the vendor portion of the MAC and only replace the > "serial number", or would it be better to randomize all 6 octants? I think it doesn't really matter. -- 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
