Hi On Thursday 28 October 2010, Larry Finger wrote: > On 09/21/2010 02:20 PM, Stefan Lippers-Hollmann wrote: [...] > As part of the inclusion of r8712u in staging, Greg KH asked for a TODO item to > convert the firmware to an external binary. I see this as a 2 step process: (1) > get the firmware binary accepted into linux-firmware, and (2) make it work with > the external loading mechanism. Step 1 has been completed with the following > commit message: > > commit c500ee5be41b7954ba9630d7e5d409a24efaf249 > Author: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Wed Oct 20 11:49:59 2010 -0500 > > Convert firmware for Realtek RTL8192SU (rtl8712u) from embedded to > an external file. > > Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > The code for step 2 is running locally. I'm waiting for the new version of > linux-firmware to propagate through the distros before I submit the patch. If I assume you refer to rtl8712u.bin in your r8712u_firmware tree: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/lwfinger/r8712u_firmware.git;a=blob_plain;f=rtl8712u.bin 200fd952db3cc9259b1fd05e3e51966f *rtl8712u.bin > you want to grab the new firmware package, I can send you a copy of the patch. I'd very much like to test the patch(2) needed for rtl8712, if possible. Regards Stefan Lippers-Hollmann -- 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
