From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from ra.tuxdriver.com ([70.61.120.52]:4527 "EHLO ra.tuxdriver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753226AbYAFVGp (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Jan 2008 16:06:45 -0500 Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 15:34:35 -0500 From: "John W. Linville" To: Michael Buesch Cc: bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: b43 will need a firmware upgrade soon Message-ID: <20080106203435.GA18833@tuxdriver.com> (sfid-20080106_210700_194924_63BD8B79) References: <200801061802.38297.mb@bu3sch.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <200801061802.38297.mb@bu3sch.de> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 -- John W. Linville linville@tuxdriver.com