linux-kernel - Re: staging: ft1000-pcmcia: remove support for v5 firmware

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Message-ID: <20150817143517.GH5558@mwanda>
Date:	Mon, 17 Aug 2015 17:35:17 +0300
From:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:	Ondrej Zary <linux@...nbow-software.org>
Cc:	devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
	Kernel development list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: staging: ft1000-pcmcia: remove support for v5 firmware

On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 09:14:05PM +0200, Ondrej Zary wrote:
> Most probably yes.
> 
> However, the driver will be useless soon as the Flash OFDM network is being 
> decommissioned here in Slovakia. AFAIK, this technology is not used anywhere 
> else in the world (the 2nd country was Finland). The ft1000 devices will be 
> left with no signal.

Wikipedia says they are still used on some German trains [citation
needed] and parts of Dublin and few other places possibly...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthogonal_frequency-division_multiplexing#FLASH-OFDM

That page seems to be have been written about eight years ago.

regards,
dan carpenter

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