Return-path: Received: from mail-qw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.216.46]:53247 "EHLO mail-qw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754697Ab0JTWLY convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Oct 2010 18:11:24 -0400 Received: by qwa26 with SMTP id 26so2834705qwa.19 for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 15:11:23 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4CBF640C.4080405@broadcom.com> References: <4CBF640C.4080405@broadcom.com> Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 00:11:23 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Request for free-distributable Broadcom's (G|LP)-PHY firmware From: =?UTF-8?B?UmFmYcWCIE1pxYJlY2tp?= To: Henry Ptasinski Cc: 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: 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". -- Rafał