[Debian-eeepc-devel] Bug#521553: rt2860 driver contains non-free firmware

[Darren Salt]

I demand that Damyan Ivanov may or may not have written...

[snip]
> Darren Salt is working on porting rt2860 to use the standard firmware
> loading mechanism. In my understanding, that would allow the driver to
> remain in the tree (enabled) and the formware moved to the firmware-linux
> package.

> The current state is at 
> http://alioth.debian.org/~dsalt-guest/rt2860sta-fw.tar.gz

This is now, I believe, completed; at least, it Works For Me. (I think that
it's in a suitable form for forwarding upstream, though they may want to
retain the option of embedding the firmware. This should be reasonably easy
to accomodate.)

rt2870 seems to follow much the same pattern. I may yet choose to convert it
but, lacking such hardware, I cannot test it.

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