From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail-gw2-out.broadcom.com ([216.31.210.63]:35110 "EHLO mail-gw2-out.broadcom.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751088AbaLCJJW (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Dec 2014 04:09:22 -0500 Message-ID: <547ED33C.5020409@broadcom.com> (sfid-20141203_101012_944160_E2210051) Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2014 10:09:16 +0100 From: Arend van Spriel MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "John W. Linville" CC: Eric Schultz , , "Luis R. Rodriguez" Subject: Re: New FCC requirements and Linux Wifi References: <20141202003143.GA11546@tuxdriver.com> <547E1485.40302@broadcom.com> In-Reply-To: <547E1485.40302@broadcom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 12/02/14 20:35, Arend van Spriel wrote: > On 12/02/14 01:31, John W. Linville wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 01, 2014 at 04:27:25PM -0600, Eric Schultz wrote: >>> All, >>> >>> I work for the prpl Foundation, an open source foundation organized by >>> a number of companies, most related to MIPS. One project we work with >>> externally is the OpenWrt project. Recently one of our members >>> mentioned a new FCC requirement (described in FCC publication 594280) >>> which requires wifi hardware devices to restrict modifications in ways >>> that were not previously required. Some of the suggestions the company >>> had internally for complying would be to use features like Secure Boot >>> and other types of DRM-like mechanisms to prevent routers from being >>> modified. This obviously would be quite bad for the OpenWrt community >>> (and the embedded Linux community as a whole) so we agreed as a group >>> to try to provide hardware companies with a way of complying without >>> harming the community. The FCC publication can be found here: https://apps.fcc.gov/oetcf/kdb/forms/FTSSearchResultPage.cfm?switch=P&id=39498 I had issues downloading the guidance document itself. Another fine read from 2010 is here: http://www.fcc.gov/oet/ea/presentations/files/oct10/FCC_Roundtable_General_Discussion_101910-Staff.pdf At page 13 of this document are draft updates that Eric is probably referring to. Regards, Arend >>> I'm looking to find individuals (and other companies!) interested in >>> working with myself and the foundation, companies, the OpenWrt >>> community and eventually regulators to provide guidance to hardware >>> companies on how to best comply with these rules. If you're interested >>> in getting involved or just would like to know more, please get in >>> touch with me. We want to make sure that routers and related embedded >>> Linux hardware is hackable and we could use all the help we could get. >>> >>> Thanks and I look forward to working with you, >>> >>> Eric >> >> Eric, >> >> Obviously, I would be interested in hearing more. I suspect there >> are others on the list that will be interested as well... > > I think so too. Just not sure what "Linux hardware is hackable" really > means here. Well, I guess I mean to say: tell me more. I guess with > hardware companies you mean OEMs here, right? > > Regards, > Arend > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe > linux-wireless" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html