On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 06:40:38PM -0800, Geoff Simmons wrote: > Hi Luis, > > Are you still considering a push of the AR9170 1-stage firmware to > linux-firmware, as per your previous intention? [1]
Well so I was hoping more people would test the GPL based firmware and instead support that [1]. But after Johannes' help with its release there hasn't been much activity on its development to try to stabilize a release. I think those of us interested just sort of have a lot of other priorities right now. [1] http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ar9170.fw I don't use ar9170 on a daily basis either so I cannot say I notice any differences myself, but when I do ask Johannes who I know has tested both it seems the proprietary 1-stage firmware sometimes works and sometimes the 2-stage fw works better for him. I'm inclined to just say to prefer a build of the GPL firmware but I'm not looking at bug reports and not sure if anyone else is so I cannot commit to that. > My interest is in having this packaged for the Debian distribution within its > firmware-linux-nonfree package [2], which uses content in David Woodhouse's > linux-firmware tree as its upstream. Lets see what Johannes and Christian think. I should note the 1-stage proprietary firmware should be technically the same as the open one but the open one had a lot of code removed we didn't need or shared. It also used gcc while the proprietary one was built with a proprietary sh2 compiler/linker. > On a related note, I have not encountered issues with use of 1-stage firmware > on my AR9170-based device (a Netgear WNDA3100), when compared with the 2-stage > firmware. I'd encourage to test out the open firmware. > Thank you for your time. > > Geoff > > [1] http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=125122858824049&w=2 > [2] http://bugs.debian.org/558740 Luis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
