Future of the broadcom-wl package?

[Hauke Mehrtens]

On 1/26/24 18:45, Felix Fietkau wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> does anybody still care about the broadcom-wl package in OpenWrt?
> I think it would be nice if we could get rid of it, along with the code 
> support and abstraction for different wireless drivers.
> It would also allow us to rewrite iwinfo in ucode with nl80211 as the 
> only supported API, which helps keep things simple.
> 
> Would anybody be opposed to declaring 23.05 to be the last release to 
> support broadcom-wl?
> 
> - Felix

+1, I support removing broadcom-wl.

We should also do it because it uses a closed source binary we link into 
the kernel.

Hauke