[Mageia-dev] [changelog] [RPM] cauldron core/release ldetect-lst-0.1.292-2.1.mga2

Tue Oct 18 23:28:58 CEST 2011

18.10.2011 22:34, zezinho skrev:
+> Le mardi 18 octobre 2011 19:30:42, Thomas Backlund a écrit :
+>> I dont see any changes in the above branch, only in trunk!
+>>
+>
+> You are right, I forgot the svn commit. Done.
+>
+>> And I have one concern...
+>>
+>> have you checked that b43 supports _all_ the hw that wl supports ?
+>> (I haven't checked it)
+>>
+>> If not, this change will cause a regression for those that would need wl.
+>>
+> Are you talking about wl closed source module driver? It does not use this
+> firmware files, and do not match all the hardware b43 matches (I happen to have
+> also one card that uses it, thanks to dkms-broadcom-wl )
+>
+> Or you talk about b43 hardware for which openfwwf firmware will not work?
+> According to this pages all working b43 hardware accepts this firmware, except
+> some PCMCIA which were worked on.
+>
+
+I'm talking about this:
+http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#Support
+
+There are several ids that are listed as supported by wl,
+but their b43 counterpart states either "untested", "partially in 
+2.6.39+" and so on...
+
+And since Mageia 1 ships 2.6.38, it means switching driver in drakx 
+can/will break something that worked in the release tests.
+
+Providing the openfwwf rpms for Mageia 1 is safe, and adding errata info
+how to use them is also...
+but changing drakx-net is not regression-free,
+so I'm not convinced we should do it.
+
+As for doing it in Cauldron, its ok both from kernel side and from
+testing standpoint...
+
+Maybe others have other opinion.
+
+> http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#Supported_devices
+> http://www.ing.unibs.it/~openfwwf/
+>
+> I don't know if we can do better :
+> 1- try open source firmware
+> 2- ask for windows driver if 1 did not work?
+
+That would be nice, but I'm not sure it's worth rewriting parts of the 
+installer for a already released product.
+
+For cauldron that could be an option.
+
+--
+Thomas
+