[Debian-eeepc-devel] Bug#521553: rt2860 driver contains non-free firmware

[Damyan Ivanov]

-=| maximilian attems, Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 07:05:49PM +0200 |=-
> On Sat, 28 Mar 2009, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> 
> > I'd like to commit the following change.  Obviously this disables the
> > drivers and they will have to be modified to work with external firmware.
> > But I don't see why we should wait for that.
> 
> ok for committing to trunk, so that can be sorted for 2.6.30.
> 
> don't see the need to have to rush that for 2.6.29,
> who just happened to be uploaded.

Darren Salt is working on porting rt2860 to use the standard firmware 
loading mechanism. In my understanding, that would allow the driver to 
remain in the tree (enabled) and the formware moved to the 
firmware-linux package.

The current state is at 
http://alioth.debian.org/~dsalt-guest/rt2860sta-fw.tar.gz

It is still a work in progress, but proves that the idea is feasible.

Could you consider incorporating that patch for rt2860 instead of 
cutting it off completely? I hope Darren finishes it before 2.6.30 is 
out. That would make the life of us owners of EeePC with the rt2860 
wireless card a lot easier.

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