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

Ben Hutchings ben at decadent.org.uk
Fri Apr 10 00:46:44 UTC 2009


On Fri, 2009-04-10 at 00:28 +0100, Darren Salt wrote:
> I demand that Damyan Ivanov may or may not have written...
> 
> [snip]
> > 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
> 
> This is now, I believe, completed; at least, it Works For Me. (I think that
> it's in a suitable form for forwarding upstream, though they may want to
> retain the option of embedding the firmware. This should be reasonably easy
> to accomodate.)
[...]

Here's a patch which makes slightly smaller changes and also eliminates
the duplicate CRC function.  I would like to apply this and submit it
upstream, but could you test it for me before I do that?

Ben.

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