Re: [PATCH] staging/wlan-ng: Convert firmware loading to loadbinary ihex format

[Karl Relton]

On Wed, 2009-08-19 at 09:34 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 05:20:51PM +0100, Karl Relton wrote:
> > I plan to give the various distributions a utility to pre-compile the
> > firmware. It is based on ihex2fw.c.
> > 
> > I don't think the firmware will ever be accepted into linux-firmware
> > because the original licensing cannot be established.
> 
> Have you asked the company?
> Where is the firmware at today?
> 

At some point in the past the owner was Conexant, but we are not sure
they still own in. Some efforts to track down which company now owns
this firmware, and who the contact within that company would be, have
been made but have not been successful.

The firmware is downloadable from the linux-wlan-ng project. I have been
liasing with the maintainer in that project, who has tried to help as
far as he could.

Karl

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