On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 12:02 AM, Daniel Lenski<dlen...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
They have no source - everytime a new version is added to fwcutter, it's FWxx ID is incremented. E.g. if the most recent version is FW15, then adding a new entry should be done as FW16. -- Vista: [V]iruses, [I]ntruders, [S]pyware, [T]rojans and [A]dware. :-) _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
