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

[Darren Salt]

I demand that Ben Hutchings may or may not have written...

> On Fri, 2009-04-10 at 00:28 +0100, Darren Salt wrote:
[snip]
>> [ http://alioth.debian.org/~dsalt-guest/rt2860sta-fw.tar.gz ] 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?

Fails due to (at least) CRC errors. The content of the buffer is, as far as
the CRC calculation is concerned, *entirely* bit-reversed. (Yes, I missed
that too at first.)

So I've added a CRC calculation patch and modified my patch (which, though it
has more changes, should be a bit cleaner) to use the new CRC code; URL as
above.

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