From: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
To: bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: b43 will need a firmware upgrade soon
Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 22:38:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200801062238.14472.mb@bu3sch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080106203435.GA18833@tuxdriver.com>
On Sunday 06 January 2008 21:34:35 John W. Linville wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 06:02:38PM +0100, Michael Buesch wrote:
>
> > This is needed in order to add support for new devices (N-PHY).
> > Broadcom changed the ABI of the firmware, so we are forced to also
> > change the ABI of the driver.
>
> Do we have reasonable confidence that the newer firmware will run
> on all the devices currently supported by b43? Or are we looking at
> another b43legacy type of situation?
We need to check this.
Maybe we can support both firmware images in the driver. Not sure yet.
--
Greetings Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-06 21:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-06 17:02 b43 will need a firmware upgrade soon Michael Buesch
2008-01-06 20:34 ` John W. Linville
2008-01-06 21:38 ` Michael Buesch [this message]
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[not found] ` <200801070051.55678.rjw@sisk.pl>
2008-01-07 0:05 ` Michael Buesch
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