[haiku-commits] Re: r34435 - haiku/trunk/src/add-ons/kernel/drivers/network/wlan/broadcom43xx

  • From: Colin Günther <coling@xxxxxx>
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  • Date: Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:41:12 +0100

Alexandre Deckner schrieb:

Jérôme Duval wrote:

2009/12/2 Colin Günther <coling@xxxxxx>:
Mmh, I guess you are referring to license issues. Currently I looked into 
Intel firmware licenses only, which are demanding that a user reads the
license BEFORE using the corrresponding driver.


Those firmwares could be defined as optional packages of the
installation CD. The installer would be able to have the user read the
license before/when installing, and maybe detecting the hardware. It
might be out of scope for R1 though.
Yep, they could at least be defined as optional packages (not for distributed images) to simplify testing for other devs.
Agreed. Someone capable of doing this with assistance of me? Where my part would be to pinpoint to the correct firmwares ;)
On the other hand, it seems that linux distros dont have any problem including those by default, my ubuntu's /lib/firmware contains everything it seems. 

Regards,
Alex




-Colin

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