Package: wnpp Owner: "Stefan Lippers-Hollmann" <s.l-h@gmx.de> Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: "Rene Engelhard" <rene@debian.org> * Package name : b43-asm Version : 0~20080619 Upstream Author : Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> * URL : http://git.bu3sch.de/git/b43-tools.git * License : GPL-2 Programming Lang: C Description : assembler and disassembler for Broadcom BCM43xx firmware b43-asm is an (dis-)assembler for Broadcom AirForce BCM43xx wireless lan chipsets with a core revision >= 5. . It is capable of compiling and disassembling the opensource 'OpenFWWF' firmware used by Linux' b43 driver. This package is a build-dependency of OpenFWWF http://www.ing.unibs.it/openfwwf/ an opensource (GPL-2) firmware for Broadcom AirForce BCM43xx wlan devices, while this firmware is still in an early development stage, it allows to drive BCM4306 (tested), BCM4318, BCM4311/1 and BCM4320 in combination with the b43 (kernel >= 2.6.20) without non-free components. A preliminary packaging (which successfully compiles OpenFWWF 5.0/ 5.1) can be found at: Vcs-Svn: svn://svn.berlios.de/fullstory/b43-asm/trunk Vcs-Browser: http://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/fullstory/b43-asm/trunk/ http://svn.berlios.de/wsvn/fullstory/b43-asm/trunk/ At the time of this writing, particularly the manpages and a (manual) "get-upstream" target (to fetch future updates from the upstream git repository and to assemble an orig.tar.gz) need some further attention; there is no released version of b43-asm yet, which explains the strange version number referring to the last commited patch. The, so far included, disassembler is not required to build OpenFWWF and could be omitted from the preliminary packaging (it is currently only used for running a test suite during the package build and may be useful for firmware debugging). Even though there isn't much development going on for b43-asm, I would prefer to maintain this and OpenFWWF in a team. CC'ing the b43-fwcutter maintainer as requested. Regards Stefan Lippers-Hollmann -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) -- sorry about the forwarding, I forgot to CC debian-devel@l.d.o directly. http://bugs.debian.org/513973
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