The Prism is not getting much traction in the market. The company has been bounced around from owner to owner. I would think that using the prism in a design would be very risky because the chip may not be around for the life of the product.
Marty > Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 16:55:49 +0100 > From: Harald Welte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >> > Although it has a closed firmware, I found this announcement >> > http://maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-developers/2006-April/003575.html >> > with no replies on the maemo mailing list. Maybe someone who is faster >> > in than than me should try to get the driver working on his nokia770. >> > (The packages mentioned in the announcement do not work on current >> > maemo, because of the older EABI) >> > > If you are a vendor, trying to build hardware that you have to provide > support for, then the last thing you want to do is to use a chipset with > software that > > 1) the software developers don't have hardware docs > 2) the chipset manufacturer has no idea about your driver software and > will not give the device manufacturer any docs either > > It's a complete nightmare where nobody can help you and provide any kind > of acceptable support level. Thus, from a business standpoint, not > bearable. > > Also, even if the free driver authors (prism54-softmac in this case) > would really have reversed the chip up to the point there is barely > nothing that they don't know about it, I still would definitely like to > prefer generating business to a chipset manufacturer who understands the > Linux community and provides GPL'd drivers and/or documentation. > > Cheers, > > -- - Harald Welte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://openmoko.org/ > ============================================================================ > Software for the world's first truly open Free Software mobile phone _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community