[Debian-eeepc-devel] Bug#497200: ITP: rt2860-source -- source for RT2860 wireless adapter kernel module
Ben Hutchings
ben at decadent.org.uk
Mon Sep 1 10:07:27 UTC 2008
On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 10:07:10AM +0300, Damyan Ivanov wrote:
> -=| Ben Hutchings, Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 11:16:27PM +0100 |=-
> > On Sat, 2008-08-30 at 22:08 +0300, Damyan Ivanov wrote:
> > > Package: wnpp
> > > Severity: wishlist
> > > Owner: Damyan Ivanov <dmn at debian.org>
> > >
> > > * Package name : rt2860-source
> > > Version : 1.7.0.0
> > > Upstream Author : Ralink Tech Inc
> > > * URL : http://www.ralinktech.com/
> > > * License : GPL-2+ some binary non-free firmware
> > > Programming Lang: C
> > > Description : source for RT2860 wireless adapter kernel module
> > >
> > > RT2860 is a wireless adapter found particularly in the ASUS EeePC model
> > > 901 and above. The package contains the source of a Linux kernel module
> > > for it.
> >
> > Would you like to include this in the pkg-ralink project on Alioth?
>
> It is currently under debian-eeepc Git[1], but I find what you say
> very attractive, especially if it is extended a bit:
>
> [1] http://git.debian.org/?p=debian-eeepc/rt2860.git;a=summary
>
> Would you like to take over the package? I'd gladly put it in the
> hands of people having experience dealing with ralink-based cards.
I don't have any of the hardware this supports, or any 802.11n access
point I could test against (though maybe other maintainers do). There
would need to be someone in the team to take responsibility for that.
But the Ralink drivers have a lot in common (bugs, terrible coding
style...) so I should at least have some familiarity with the code.
<snip>
> > > Perhaps the module can be changed to load its firmware from
> > > external
> > > file or even not need that nasty firmware.h (there are traces of
> > > support to other hardware and that firmware may be for them).
> >
> > This should not be too hard. Look at rt73 for an example of how
> > this has been done in an existing Ralink driver.
>
> Moving the firmware away would also make it possible for a -modules
> package to be made part of linux-modules-extra, right? That would be a
> good thing.
As it is, it could be built by linux-modules-nonfree-2.6. Separate
the firmware and the module can be built by linux-modules-contrib-2.6.
Ben.
--
Ben Hutchings
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