From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from vs166246.vserver.de ([62.75.166.246]:50111 "EHLO vs166246.vserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754388AbYAFVjz (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Jan 2008 16:39:55 -0500 From: Michael Buesch To: bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de Subject: Re: b43 will need a firmware upgrade soon Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 22:38:14 +0100 Cc: "John W. Linville" , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org References: <200801061802.38297.mb@bu3sch.de> <20080106203435.GA18833@tuxdriver.com> In-Reply-To: <20080106203435.GA18833@tuxdriver.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Message-Id: <200801062238.14472.mb@bu3sch.de> (sfid-20080106_213958_500644_591CEFFA) Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sunday 06 January 2008 21:34:35 John W. Linville wrote: > 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? We need to check this. Maybe we can support both firmware images in the driver. Not sure yet. -- Greetings Michael.