free firmware for 88W8388

[Stefano Brivio]

On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 11:37:25 -0500
Dan Williams <dcbw at redhat.com> wrote:
 
> > I am. I'm currently analyzing the firmware, I didn't try the emulation  
> > approach so far. Are you committing your work to some repository? I  
> > think we can't disclose details about reverse engineering work,  
> > though, if we are interested in a clean-room approach. So I'd rather  
> 
> No, you can't.  One team reverse engineers the hardware and creates a
> specifications document, the second team implements (from scratch or
> from unencumbered FOSS sources) the firmware that conforms to that
> specification.  The two teams cannot talk about anything that deals with
> the hardware/firmware other than creating the specification document.
> For an example of this, see the b43 driver effort for enabling broadcom
> hardware in Linux.

Don't worry, I'm a bcm43xx (currently b43/b43legacy) developer, I know how
that works. :) That's why I was talking about a private wiki. However, I'll
sort 'private' details out with Rózsás and then I'll get back to this list.


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Ciao
Stefano