[Pkg-raspi-maintainers] Bug#999485: firmware-brcm80211: Please add brcmfmac43456-sdio.* files as it's not just used in RPi devices

[Diederik de Haas]

Hi Salvatore and Gunnar,

On Tuesday, 31 January 2023 19:17:43 CET Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
> > Gunnar indicated that he's willing to remove the files from
> > raspi-firmware,
> > but they still need to be added to firmware-brcm80211, so pretty please?
> 
> So I looked at this, and don't think the firmware-nonfree packages
> should take it over. Why?
> The firmware files are not part of linux-firmware.git .

I understand that reasoning and as said on IRC, that was the reason that I did 
not know how to deal with that and therefor couldn't make a MR myself.

> Would they fit into a separate source package not associated with
> raspi-config?

I do strongly think they do not belong in the raspi-firmware package for the 
reason I retitled this bug and retitled my response Subject. Another reason is 
that the raspi-firmware package makes (several) assumptions, namely that they 
are only used/usable on RPi devices and have a /boot/firmware directory (where 
a FAT partition is mounted, although that part is not checked for).
I have previously expressed my concerns/doubts about that, but that's outside 
the scope of this bug.
It also looks 'weird' to install the raspi-firmware package while you only care 
about the wifi firmware and not care about RPi's at all.

> The other option is that they get included upstream in
> linux-firmware.git by upstream?

Gunnar knows I'm not much of a fan of Raspberry Pi Foundation (RPF) and that 
was confirmed once again by their typical reaction to this exact request. 

I'm too 'lazy' to look it up, so I'll paraphrase it:
"It works for us (so fsck off). Can't you just use our files?"

Regards,
  Diederik
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