W dniu 9 paÅdziernika 2010 00:07 uÅytkownik RafaÅ MiÅecki <zajec5@xxxxxxxxx> napisaÅ: > Hi Broadcom fellows! > > It's great that afters long years of... well, pretty horrible > relations with Linux/opensource you have taken actions to change your > image. I guess brcm80211 it's perfect yet, and people may like it more > or less, but it's no doubt you made step in the right direction. > Thanks for that! > > As you should know, you released driver and firmware for 802.11n > devices only. I believe it was right, as these device seem to be the > most nowadays and were the only ones without any open source support. > For older devices: G-PHY and LP-PHY we have working b43 driver that is > in relatively good shape. However... there is one thing we still miss > for olders cards. > > Every time someone wants to use b43 it's necessary to download quite > big package from openwrt, unpack it, extract firmware and install it. > That simply happens because we don't have just-firmware files with > nice licensing. And of course there goes my request: > > *Can you submit G-PHY and LP-PHY firmware to linux-firmware using some > normal licensing, please?* > > This is of course not the best I could wish for, but is important > anyway and it should be easy decision. Ideally you could release > sources of firmware (plus toolchain eventualy... however, we have nice > toolchain from Michael), but I guess it would need more time and > decisions to make it happen. So as for now I guess we would be happy > with just closed source but easy-distributable firmware. Could you > release, submit it? Greg: I didn't receive any answer from Broadcom for any mail. Do you maybe have any "working" contact with this company? :| -- RafaÅ -- 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
