#429 HIGH Future : wireless firmware not in-house.

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#429: wireless firmware not in-house.
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           Reporter:  dwmw2      |       Owner:  walter        
               Type:  defect     |      Status:  new           
           Priority:  high       |   Milestone:  Future Release
          Component:  wireless   |     Version:                
         Resolution:             |    Keywords:                
        Next_action:  never set  |    Verified:  0             
Deployment_affected:             |   Blockedby:                
           Blocking:             |  
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Comment(by sunrise1):

 We should explore the possibility of opening at least the high-level parts
 of the firmware -- the 802.11 protocol bits, and the module<->host
 communication -- at least to OLPC under an NDA, if not completely. The
 low-level parts which deal with the transceiver hardware itself could
 remain in binary form for now,[http://www.tagnice.com  nike air yeezy
 shoes] if they really must.

 As long as we can poke at and rebuild the high-level parts, it shouldn't
 be _quite_ so much of a problem for us if we have only binary object files
 for the low-level code, and we just link those binary blobs into our own
 firmware builds.

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/429#comment:22>
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