On 8 Feb 2011, at 19:34, Auke Kok wrote: > On 02/08/11 04:49, Glen Gray wrote: >> >> On 3 Feb 2011, at 18:45, Auke Kok wrote: >> >>> On 02/02/11 12:21, Robinson Tryon wrote: >>>> On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 9:46 AM, Arjan van de Ven<ar...@linux.intel.com> >>>> wrote: >>>>> On 2/2/2011 6:43 AM, Glen Gray wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> or we all spend time making the opensource BCM driver work on 2.6.37 >>>>> >>>>> this sounds like a really good idea regardless of anything else. >>>>> >>>> >>>> I remember hearing that Broadcom had become a member of the Linux >>>> Foundation, and that they'd released some set of drivers under FOSS >>>> licenses. Given that Broadcom is a member of LF, and MeeGo is a >>>> project of the LF, is there any ongoing support by Broadcom to help >>>> get their hardware working with open drivers under the Linux kernel, >>>> and with the MeeGo stack in particular? >>> >>> We're hopeful that the upstream driver will mature fast with the help of >>> broadcom engineers, and I can see from the commit logs in the kernel that >>> there is work ongoing by them. The upstream-first scheme will work well for >>> us here - Broadcom gets to focus development on the mainstream kernel >>> driver, and we'll be able to get the code from there. >> >> That's great, but where does it leave is for the upcoming 1.2 release ? > > probably out of luck, since we won't change the kernel for the 1.2 release - > something that was decided a long time ago. > So where does that leave the lockdep rcu debugs setting in the kernel. Is that going to remain enabled for the release and thus blocking the Broadcom STA driver from loading ?
> of course, nothing stops anyone from doing a backport and adding the open > source driver in the community OBS> Nope, nothing stopping anyone from doing that and that's great for developers. But that's not going to satisfy the many regular users out there the the Netbook UX was designed for. Those on netbooks that have a Broadcom wifi chip, such as the Dell Mini 9 which I won or the Lenovo ideapad that was given out at the Meegoconf in dublin. At least they can at present, with the 1.1 release, get a Broadcom driver built and running on their netbooks, even if it's a convoluted process for them. I'd hate to see us loose that of force a situation where we're forcing a Broadcom driver to claim its GPL when it's not. Kind Regards, -- Glen Gray sla...@slaine.org _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list MeeGo-dev@meego.com http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
