[Prism54-devel] Re: Prism54 development update

[Jean-Baptiste Note]

Hi Feyd,

> Have you already decided on the license? I suggest BSD, that would allow
> to link the fw with the driver on both BSD and Linux, no separate loading
> would then be neccessary.

Strangely enough Sebastien's FreeBSD driver is under GPL, certainly
because it was initiallly a port of my code (which was based on
yours !), which was not dual-licensed.

I may not have my say in freemac (Sebastien wrote all of it, even though
i contributed some reverse-engeneering), but i think we should follow
the same path.

First, separate loading seems a good thing to me (after all, the
firmware code is dead once loaded, so it makes sense to use the firmware
loading capabilities).

Second, Conexant has been far from collaborative. I don't want the
remote possibility of them taking advantage of the weeks i spend reading
their asm where they could provide me with 

1/ documentation about how to communicate with their firmware
2/ documentation about how to program their chip.

JB