Return-path: Received: from mail-iw0-f174.google.com ([209.85.214.174]:49014 "EHLO mail-iw0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755753Ab0JTWVM convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Oct 2010 18:21:12 -0400 Received: by iwn7 with SMTP id 7so2756747iwn.19 for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 15:21:11 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <4CBF640C.4080405@broadcom.com> From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 15:13:30 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Request for free-distributable Broadcom's (G|LP)-PHY firmware To: =?UTF-8?B?UmFmYcWCIE1pxYJlY2tp?= Cc: Henry Ptasinski , Brett Rudley , Nohee Ko , Greg Kroah-Hartman , "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" , b43-dev Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 2010/10/20 Rafał Miłecki : > W dniu 20 października 2010 23:50 użytkownik Henry Ptasinski > napisał: >> Sorry for the delay in responding.  We are exploring what is possible but >> for the moment the answer is no. At present our focus is on providing the >> best open source solution we can for 4313, 43224, 43225, 4329 and future >> chips sets. > > Thanks for answer. > > Please, can you make totally sure person responsible for this gets it > totally right? I believe it's very important. > > The easiest step for you, which we still would appreciate is really > trivial one. It's *not* about writing any code, *not* about releasing > anything new. It's just about releasing in under friendly license. > This firmware is already available, we have access to it, we use it. > The problem is that distributions can not ship it. > > If you let me use simplification: all we need as first nice step is > Broadcom to say: "You can use it". I should note not providing a redistributable firmware is actually creating more motivation to keep working on open reversed engineered firmware which may make take the devices out of compliance. Ultimately this firmware is what is going to be used by users of the Linux kernel if Broadcom does not provide any alternatives, as there is no option. Please pass this message along :) Luis