Re: RFC: A workaround for BCM43XX devices with no on-board SPROM

[Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>]

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.

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Greetings, Michael.