Return-path: Received: from charlotte.tuxdriver.com ([70.61.120.58]:54150 "EHLO smtp.tuxdriver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932216AbaLBApM (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Dec 2014 19:45:12 -0500 Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2014 19:31:44 -0500 From: "John W. Linville" To: Eric Schultz Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: New FCC requirements and Linux Wifi Message-ID: <20141202003143.GA11546@tuxdriver.com> (sfid-20141202_014517_468555_FDFAB89A) References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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. > > 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... John -- John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you linville@tuxdriver.com might be all we have. Be ready.