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From: Michael =?UTF-8?B?QsO8c2No?= <m@bues.ch>
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 12:19:56 +0100
Subject: Patch "b43: refuse to load unsupported firmware" has been added
 to the 3.0-stable tree
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On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 09:42:04 +0100
Rafa? Mi?ecki <zajec5@gmail.com> wrote:
> 1) Broadcom driver doesn't contain info about firmware version

In fact it does. The microcode does contain the version, of course.

> 2) Because of that b43-fwcutter can't name files correctly

And fwcutter is even able to extract it from the dump. It also
does so currently.

> 3) Discovering firmware version requires loading it to the firmware
> and reading from SHM

No.

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Greetings, Michael.