On Thursday 18 March 2010 18:46:35 Larry Finger wrote: > (1) Modify b43-fwcutter to take data from an existing SPROM,
Why not extend the ssb-sprom tool? I don't think this has anything to do with firmware, except that we (ab)use the firmware loading mechanism of the kernel for loading the blob into the kernel. > I have chosen to implement this in > fwcutter rather than ssb_sprom because the ordinary user will not have access > to > ssb_sprom; Huh? ssb-sprom is GPL software. I have no problem relicensing it under BSD or even something more liberal. I don't see a problem for "ordinary users" here. > however, they do have a version of fwcutter supplied by the distro. Well, but that version won't do anything on the SPROM, too. > It it reasonable to keep the vendor portion of the MAC and only replace the > "serial number", or would it be better to randomize all 6 octants? I think it doesn't really matter. -- Greetings, Michael. _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
