On 09/21/2011 08:55 AM, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
W dniu 21 września 2011 15:52 użytkownik Rafał Miłecki
<zajec5@xxxxxxxxx> napisał:
W dniu 21 września 2011 15:40 użytkownik John W. Linville
<linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> napisał:
Their new firmware doesn't run on the older hardware, no?
AFAIK it does (unless you mean hardware covered by b43legacy).
If you take a look at 666.2 firmware, it's still available for core 5
(and 9, 13, etc.)
The reason I've added support for new firmware without dropping
support for older, was users experience. I didn't want to leave anyone
with b43 not working after kernel update (without firmware update).
That is the correct thing to do. As I see it, this firmware change is a lot less
intrusive than the changes that led to the b43/b43legacy split, where keeping
the old version working took a lot of bookkeeping.
Perhaps in 2 or 3 years, we might want to deprecate the older firmware and force
users to go to the newest style, but there is no rush.
Larry
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