Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 27 Dec 2005 22:03:59 +0100 | From | David Weinehall <> | Subject | Re: [2.6 patch] i386: always use 4k stacks |
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On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 10:16:05PM -0800, Alex Davis wrote: > > > --- Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 09:20:54PM -0800, Alex Davis wrote: > > > The problem is that, with laptops, most of the time you DON'T > > > have a choice: HP and Dell primarily use a Broadcomm integrated > > > wireless card in ther products. As of yet, there is no open > > > source driver for Broadcomm wireless. > > > > We've already been through all this the previous times this came up. > > > > http://bcm43xx.berlios.de > > > > Whilst it's in early stages, it's making progress. > > > > Dave > > > > > I understand that, and am grateful for the effort, but the point is > it's not ready. Are you expecting people to lose an important feature > of their laptop until you get the driver ready?
Yeah, it must be oh so important for the laptop owners with that particular chipset to run the -mm experimental kernels instead of, their distro kernel or the stable 2.6-kernel series or Linus latest installment (or even a git-snapshot or checkout...)
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