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Broadcom releases an open-source driver for its wireless chipsetsBroadcom releases an open-source driver for its wireless chipsetsPosted Sep 10, 2010 1:15 UTC (Fri) by kragil (subscriber, #34373)In reply to: Broadcom releases an open-source driver for its wireless chipsets by drag Parent article: Broadcom releases an open-source driver for its wireless chipsets
GregKH says they will be merged in .37:
http://twitter.com/gregkh/status/24027482819
If that is true then all 2011 distros (except Debian) will have FOSS Broadcom drivers.
Good times
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Broadcom releases an open-source driver for its wireless chipsets Posted Sep 10, 2010 11:19 UTC (Fri) by mfuzzey (subscriber, #57966) [Link]
By "merged" I suspect he means "present in 2.6.37 drivers/staging".
I suspect cleaning up the code enough to move it out of staging will take a little longer...
Broadcom releases an open-source driver for its wireless chipsets Posted Sep 16, 2010 14:34 UTC (Thu) by BenHutchings (subscriber, #37955) [Link]
I backported it to 2.6.32 and it will be in Debian 6.0 'squeeze'.
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