Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 09:49:15AM -0600, Larry Finger wrote: > >> NACK. The --postfix switch for fwcutter, and the postfix option for >> bcm43xx-d80211 driver handle >> this case perfectly well. > > It would be helpful to standardise - the default behaviour at the moment > makes the upgrade path difficult. The alternative is that distributions > are going to have to ship modprobe.d files for the dscape driver, which > will probably result in different vendors choosing different suffixes. > The two firmwares are incompatible in any meaningful way, so surely they > should have different names?
At present, the firmware is the intellectual property of Broadcom, and I doubt that any distro is going to ship it. AFAIK, it will always be the responsibility of the user to acquire a binary driver and install their own firmware. Of course, if the reverse engineering of the firmware also succeeds, then the picture changes. Larry _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
