On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 05:50:12PM -0500, Larry Finger wrote: > If your V4 firmware is still in /lib/firmware, then the Fedora kernel is a > little behind the > wireless-dev tree. Once the code that uses the new naming scheme hits their > kernel, your wireless > will probably stop working. Be prepared.
FWIW, this isn't quite true -- at least not in F7. It is true in rawhide, and I'm a bit surprised that no one has complained yet... :-) In F7 I am carrying a patch to reverse the change to the new firmware format. I want to keep F7 near wireless-dev's head, but I didn't want to break a bunch of existing configurations. I haven't quite figured-out how long I'm going to carry this in F7. It will not be in F8. Just curious, what was the motivation for the new firmware format? Can the new format be quickly described in high level terms? I'm wondering if a tool could easily convert the old firmware format to the new, so that we might add it as an upgrade tool for F8. Thanks, John -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
