Broadcom WiFi drivers now open source

Christopher Harrington ironiridis at gmail.com
Thu Sep 9 15:59:31 EDT 2010


On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 14:26, Jason Self <jason at librewrt.org> wrote:

> Ron K. Jeffries wrote:
> > This sounds loike good news to me.
>
> Still needs non-free firmware.
>
> I'm just musing here, but is there a practical reason why the non-free
firmware isn't bundled on a ROM chip with the hardware? Obviously they would
still need the ability to load firmware on the fly, but it seems odd that a
version 1.00 blob couldn't just ship right on the circuitboard.

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-Chris Harrington
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