On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 02:02:06AM +0200, Rafa?? Mi??ecki wrote: > W dniu 9 pa??dziernika 2010 00:07 u??ytkownik Rafa?? Mi??ecki > <zajec5@xxxxxxxxx> napisa??: > > 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? :| Heh, no, Henry and the others on the cc: above are all I have. Hopefully they will be able to reply, or at least give us a "we are not the developers/people who can help out with this, but please try these other email addresses..." Henry? thanks, greg k-h -- 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
