Request for free-distributable Broadcom's (G|LP)-PHY firmware

[Rafał Miłecki]

W dniu 9 października 2010 00:07 użytkownik Rafał Miłecki
<zajec5 at gmail.com> napisał:
> Hi Broadcom fellows!
>
> It's great that afters long years of... well, pretty horrible
> relations with Linux/opensource you have taken actions to change your
> image. I guess brcm80211 it's perfect yet, and people may like it more
> or less, but it's no doubt you made step in the right direction.
> Thanks for that!
>
> As you should know, you released driver and firmware for 802.11n
> devices only. I believe it was right, as these device seem to be the
> most nowadays and were the only ones without any open source support.
> For older devices: G-PHY and LP-PHY we have working b43 driver that is
> in relatively good shape. However... there is one thing we still miss
> for olders cards.
>
> Every time someone wants to use b43 it's necessary to download quite
> big package from openwrt, unpack it, extract firmware and install it.
> That simply happens because we don't have just-firmware files with
> nice licensing. And of course there goes my request:
>
> *Can you submit G-PHY and LP-PHY firmware to linux-firmware using some
> normal licensing, please?*
>
> This is of course not the best I could wish for, but is important
> anyway and it should be easy decision. Ideally you could release
> sources of firmware (plus toolchain eventualy... however, we have nice
> toolchain from Michael), but I guess it would need more time and
> decisions to make it happen. So as for now I guess we would be happy
> with just closed source but easy-distributable firmware. Could you
> release, submit it?

Greg: I didn't receive any answer from Broadcom for any mail. Do you
maybe have any "working" contact with this company? :|

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Rafał