On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 16:37 -0500, Larry Finger wrote: > Daniel Lenski wrote: > > Larry, > > I agree on the ridiculously poor packaging... did I mention they're 1gb+ > > extracted? > > I didn't look at what is contained within that package, but we > certainly don't need it.
It appears to be the complete toolchain used to build the firmware, complete with a bunch of random binaries floating around. > > I have not found any other source of these, unfortunately. I am happy > > to send the extracted firmware to developers off-list if desired. > > Linksys's less-than-helpful GPL source code page gives no indication of > > the age or date of the various files, so it's hard for me to tell which > > might be newer without downloading many Gb and extracting many > > firmwares. I have half a mind to write a Python script... > > Not necessary to send the extracted software. If and when I want to > see the new firmware, I'm perfectly happy to download that big file; > however, it does not make sense for some user who is using the > openSUSE script to wait through a large download just to install firmware. Good point. I'm not really familiar with the legal intricacies of the licensing issues involved. The LICENSE files strewn throughout the tarball *seem* to indicate that it'd be permissible to cut out the relevant binaries and distribute them, but I'm in way over my head here... > >> I notice in your extraction that there are now ucode files for > >> revisions 16, 17, 19, 20, and 21. > > > > Yes, indeed. So are these the source of the FW12/13/14/... numbering? > > No. Michael assigns a new number whenever he releases a new version. > All the new files are supposed to be listed with that number. At least > I think that is the way it works. Version 12 is the last one released. Hmm... I think we might be talking about two different things. I'm wondering about the source of the .id = "FWxx" tags in fwcutter_list.h. Dan _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
