From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from vs166246.vserver.de ([62.75.166.246]:48847 "EHLO vs166246.vserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753831AbYAFRDh (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Jan 2008 12:03:37 -0500 From: Michael Buesch To: bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de Subject: b43 will need a firmware upgrade soon Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 18:02:38 +0100 Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, John Linville MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <200801061802.38297.mb@bu3sch.de> (sfid-20080106_170347_696227_7E8FD0D3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: The b43 driver will need an incompatible firmware upgrade, soon. I'm probably going to do this in 2.6.25 or 2.6.26. The update will require people to download and extract updated officially supported firmware. The firmware will be linked to from the usual place at linuxwireless.org. The driver will print a verbose error message when it detects too old firmware and abort initialization. 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. I'm very sorry for the inconvenience. -- Greetings Michael.