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| author | Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> | 2008-01-28 23:47:41 +0100 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2008-01-29 00:09:50 +0100 |
| commit | eb189d8bc9824bcb2187ffdab27d77ab469264c3 (patch) | |
| tree | 612c6549f0d0261087b55b157dd5ca016386ddee /Documentation | |
| parent | b43: Fix radio ID register reading (diff) | |
| download | linux-eb189d8bc9824bcb2187ffdab27d77ab469264c3.tar.xz linux-eb189d8bc9824bcb2187ffdab27d77ab469264c3.zip | |
b43: Add support for new firmware
This patch adds support for new firmware.
Old firmware is still supported until July 2008.
To get new firmware, go to
ftp://ftp.linksys.com/opensourcecode/wrt150nv11/1.51.3/
and download the tarball. We don't have a smaller tarball, yet.
That will be fixed later.
You can extract firmware out of the "wl_ap.o" file contained
in this tarball using latest fwcutter. You must pass the option
--unsupported to fwcutter.
Fwcutter-010 with official support for a new firmware image will
be released soon.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 166915df8d6a..181bff005167 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -345,3 +345,12 @@ What (Why): When: January 2009 or Linux 2.7.0, whichever comes first Why: Superseded by newer revisions or modules Who: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de> + +--------------------------- + +What: b43 support for firmware revision < 410 +When: July 2008 +Why: The support code for the old firmware hurts code readability/maintainability + and slightly hurts runtime performance. Bugfixes for the old firmware + are not provided by Broadcom anymore. +Who: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> |