From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <5d375e920705102235w75c6028cn18af4b8c2d812be5@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 07:35:09 +0200 From: Uriel To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: Broadcom driver discussion [Was: Re: [9fans] Is IBM ThinkPad R60e notebook compatible with Plan9?] In-Reply-To: <32a656c20705102158u468298ccs4ef99e75d6653893@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <32a656c20705102158u468298ccs4ef99e75d6653893@mail.gmail.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 6430b562-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 5/11/07, Vester Thacker wrote: > On 5/11/07, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: > > > Any one involved with writing a broadcom driver care to kickoff a discussion? > > > > jmk sent me his work-in-progress driver code. I started work on it on > > my Dell Latitude D610, but cardbus driver issues got in the way. By > > the time I got close to resolving that, the laptop got replaced. > > Thanks Lyndon. Is anyone else working on the driver? Question is who has the latest code and why the hell it is not released so others can test/work on it? By the way, there is some code in http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/contrib/uriel/mirror/bc.tgz for bcm57xx, I have no clue in what state it is in or if it is the latest code. Eric Van Hensbergen said two months ago in a private post to the GSoC website: "jmk says bcm4401 is done internally and working, but just needs tidying up." What that means is beyond me, and as far as I know the code is still nowhere to be found. Again, this is not the first, second, third or twentieth time we have had to play this silly little dances with people keeping code private and everyone else having to play ridiculous guess games. It is so hard to understand that this is not just wrong, but it is specially *stupid*? uriel