On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 02:35:14PM -0500, Larry Finger wrote: > Developing a V3 firmware driver for 802.11b devices doesn't seem to be > viable. From what I see in > the latest versions of the specifications, support for 802.11b devices is > disappearing from the > Broadcom drivers. Thus, I think a standalone bcm43xx-softmac solution would > be best.
I'm not sure I follow the reasoning here. Won't the softmac driver still need v3 firmware? Is converting the softmac driver to mac80211 (as bcm43xx-old or somesuch) really a bigger job than trying to maintain out-of-tree code for both the driver and the softmac component from now on? You are also imposing upon distros a choice between shipping out-of-kernel drivers or just not supporting certain hardware. Both choices suck -- I can elaborate if it isn't clear why. I'd much rather see two drivers, one for v3 firmware and one for later firmware. Why is this such a problem? Afterall, at one time the mac80211 (then d80211) driver supported v3 firmware. John -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
