On Thursday 03 September 2009 23:37:31 Larry Finger wrote: > Daniel Lenski wrote: > > Larry, > > I agree on the ridiculously poor packaging... did I mention they're 1gb+ > > extracted? > > I didn't look at what is contained within that package, but we > certainly don't need it. > > > I have not found any other source of these, unfortunately. I am happy > > to send the extracted firmware to developers off-list if desired. > > Linksys's less-than-helpful GPL source code page gives no indication of > > the age or date of the various files, so it's hard for me to tell which > > might be newer without downloading many Gb and extracting many > > firmwares. I have half a mind to write a Python script... > > Not necessary to send the extracted software. If and when I want to > see the new firmware, I'm perfectly happy to download that big file; > however, it does not make sense for some user who is using the > openSUSE script to wait through a large download just to install firmware. > > > >> I notice in your extraction that there are now ucode files for > >> revisions 16, 17, 19, 20, and 21. > > > > Yes, indeed. So are these the source of the FW12/13/14/... numbering? > > No. Michael assigns a new number whenever he releases a new version. > All the new files are supposed to be listed with that number. At least > I think that is the way it works. Version 12 is the last one released.
Ehm, no. The FW.. identifier is a _unique_ identifier for a set of firmware files. So the identifier is the same for binary equal firmware files. So if you add a firmware _that_ _is_ _not_ _already_ _there_ you monotonically increment the last ID and assign the firmware that ID. But if another firmware is already there which has the same version _and_ number of files _and_ filenames _and_ these files are binary equal, assign the new firmware the ID of the existing equal firmware. The idea is that the driver prints a string to dmesg telling what the best supported firmware is. For example if the driver says: Broadcom 43xx driver loaded [ Features: PL, Firmware-ID: FW13 ] that means the user should go and get FW13. -- Greetings, Michael. _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
