BCM43xx support?

[Scott Robinson]

On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 07:01:39PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> There's a big difference between non-free firmware and non-free drivers
> - the latter is much worse as the code runs in kernel context on the
> same CPU.  And it won't help the driver development if distros won't
> ship it.
> 
> It seems better to replace the version in the kernel with a CVS
> snapshot.  ndiswrapper is a hack, which results in an un-debuggable
> kernel, not a long term solution.
> 
> Lee

I agree with you, however I was thinking more in terms of a long-term
supportability. The included bcm43xx is broken. The CVS bcm43xx is in
development.

What about supporting a bcm43xx-source package out of the mainline?

Scott.

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