From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: b43 will need a firmware upgrade soon
Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 15:34:35 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080106203435.GA18833@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200801061802.38297.mb@bu3sch.de>
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?
John
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John W. Linville
linville@tuxdriver.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-06 21:06 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 [this message]
2008-01-06 21:38 ` Michael Buesch
[not found] ` <200801070027.54717.mb@bu3sch.de>
[not found] ` <200801070051.55678.rjw@sisk.pl>
2008-01-07 0:05 ` Michael Buesch
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