Re: integration of opensource firmware with b43 kernel driver

[Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>]

On Friday 23 January 2009 19:50:37 Dan Williams wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 19:08 +0100, Michael Buesch wrote:
> > On Friday 23 January 2009 19:01:00 Larry Finger wrote:
> > > The driver can certainly be coded to look for the open-source firmware
> > > names before trying to load vendor firmware. That way there will not
> > > be any confusion.
> > 
> > I already posted that, but in case you missed it:
> > http://bu3sch.de/patches/wireless-testing/20081227-1821/patches/008-b43-probe-open-fw.patch
> 
> Preferring the proprietary firmware over the open firmware (for now)
> seems like the best approach at this time.  Many people will be quite
> happy with the open firmware that we can actually ship in distros, and
> those that aren't can do the fwcutter stuff and get their own
> proprietary firmware.  If for some reason the open firmware isn't
> working, use fwcutter and get the proprietary firmware, which you would
> have had to do before anyway.  And those people with chips that aren't
> supported by the proprietary firmware yet still have to use the
> fwcutter, which they would have had to do anyway.  Win all around.

Exactly. This is why I implemented it that way.

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Greetings, Michael.