Return-path: Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:47868 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752471AbXBIWwl (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Feb 2007 17:52:41 -0500 Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 23:52:34 +0100 From: Martin Langer To: Matthew Garrett Cc: Larry Finger , Joseph Jezak , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, John Linville , Michael Buesch , Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de Subject: Re: [PATCH] bcm43xx: Fix code for spec changes of 2/7/2007 Message-ID: <20070209225234.GA3381@tuba> References: <45cca236.+lL/rsW3DbM3elnk%Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> <200702091811.40683.mb@bu3sch.de> <45CCF432.2070002@gentoo.org> <200702091829.51002.mb@bu3sch.de> <45CCBB93.2040703@lwfinger.net> <45CCC5DF.8010001@gentoo.org> <45CCCAE1.9080901@lwfinger.net> <20070209213239.GA11650@srcf.ucam.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20070209213239.GA11650@srcf.ucam.org> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 09:32:39PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 01:26:25PM -0600, Larry Finger wrote: > > > My plan is to continue to maintain bcm43xx-SoftMAC for at least the BPHY and 4306 revisions even > > after d80211 becomes the in-kernel driver. Of course, I hope that we will have found the killer bugs > > by that time, and that maintenance will only require following kernel API changes. > > Just to make sure I'm understanding this correctly - does the v4 > firmware drop compatibility for older cards, or is it just that Broadcom > dropped support in the driver at the same time as the firmware changed, > and the new firmware will still also drive the old cards? We can't extract bcm43xx_microcode2.fw from v4 drivers. You need this file for old rev2+3 0x812 cores. So we don't know what firmware we should load into those old cores. I think broadcom never developed a new v4 style firmware for their old hardware. Martin