sourcecode of broadcom drivers up to 2011 yr sup

Adrian Chadd adrian.chadd at gmail.com
Thu Nov 17 22:26:15 UTC 2016


no, we don't have a licence to port it open source and I don't have a
licence to generate binaries for other people.



-adrian


On 17 November 2016 at 14:17, paradox via freebsd-wireless
<freebsd-wireless at freebsd.org> wrote:
> what you mean ? if we have broadcom sourcecode, we can't porting and use it for self ?
>
> --------------------------------------------
> On Fri, 11/18/16, Fehmi Noyan ISI <fnoyanisi at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>  Subject: Re: sourcecode of broadcom drivers up to 2011 yr sup
>  To: "paradox" <ddkprog at yahoo.com>, "Felix Friedlander" <felixphew0 at gmail.com>
>  Cc: "freebsd-wireless at freebsd.org" <freebsd-wireless at freebsd.org>
>  Date: Friday, November 18, 2016, 12:03 AM
>
>
>  >>> the sourcecode can be porting to freebsd but
>  not including to kernel
>
>  not quite sure about this... obviously enough, licences are
>  there for a reason.
>
>  ________________________________
>  From: paradox via freebsd-wireless <freebsd-wireless at freebsd.org>
>  To: Felix Friedlander <felixphew0 at gmail.com>
>
>  Cc: freebsd-wireless at freebsd.org
>  Sent: Friday, November 18, 2016 9:42 AM
>  Subject: Re: sourcecode of broadcom drivers up to 2011 yr
>  sup
>
>
>  if Anrian already have access to source code of broadcom,
>  its great ! i don't known about it
>
>  about of licensing, the sourcecode can be porting to freebsd
>  but not including to kernel, seems many people tobe
>  enougth this
>
>
>  --------------------------------------------
>  On Thu, 11/17/16, Felix Friedlander <felixphew0 at gmail.com>
>  wrote:
>
>  Subject: Re: sourcecode of broadcom drivers up to 2011 yr
>  sup
>  To: "paradox" <ddkprog at yahoo.com>
>  Cc: freebsd-wireless at freebsd.org
>  Date: Thursday, November 17, 2016, 10:32 PM
>
>
>  > On 18 Nov. 2016, at 05:36, paradox via
>  freebsd-wireless
>  <freebsd-wireless at freebsd.org>
>  wrote:
>  >
>  > seems all BCM WIFI PHY & MAC sourcecode of
>  ABG/N/LP/NT/SSN
>  > hope your can build it or take part for independ
>  module
>
>  > MAC
>  > https://github.com/elenril/VMG1312-B/tree/master/bcmdrivers/broadcom/net/wl/impl10/wl/sys
>  > PHY
>  > https://github.com/elenril/VMG1312-B/tree/master/bcmdrivers/broadcom/net/wl/impl10/wl/phy
>
>  There’s a difference between finding the code, and having
>  a licence to use it… If I’m not mistaken Adrian already
>  has access to the proprietary Broadcom driver through his
>  work, it’s more of a licensing issue.
>
>  Still a nice find though, with this and the Cypress
>  datasheets some things may become a bit easier.
>
>  --
>  Felix Friedlander <felixphew0 at gmail.com>
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