On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 10:43, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 19:56, Hubert Figuiere wrote: > > On mer, 2003-11-19 at 22:23, Thomas Otto wrote: > > > > - AirPort Extreme support > > > > > > IIRC this won't happen since Broadcom is refusing to release specs for > > > it :/ (which is why I'll stick to my 700Mhz G3 iBook). > > > > > > See > > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2003/debian-powerpc-200308/msg00789.html > > > > > > ...maybe write a mail to Apple/Broadcom for some larting. > > > > Apple probably don't give a sh*t to the problem. Otherwise we would have > > the driver in Darwin... > > > > As for Broadcom, I'm not sure it'll be easy. They apparently don't care > > at all. > > Not only they don't care enough to do even a binary driver, but they > also are completely opposed to the idea of having an open source one > or giving up specs.
hmmhh but why did they write a GPLed bcm4401 driver then ? I mean where is the difference for them in supporting one device but not the other ?! Soeren.
