free firmware for 88W8388

[Albert Cahalan]

On Jan 23, 2008 6:22 PM, Dan Williams <dcbw at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 21:03 +0100, Rózsás Gödény wrote:

> >         I hope you can make options to start with any of the 3
> >         firmwares.
> >         Perhaps I wish to try writing a boot1 or boot2.
>
> Um, Boot1 is burned into ROM on the 8388 and you probably can't change
> that without a lot of voodoo magic :)
>
> Only Boot2 and the post-boot firmware are loadable.

Yes, but a free emulator requires free boot1 code.
One can certainly load that code in an emulator.