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

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Hi Diederik,

On Sat, Feb 04, 2023 at 10:49:29PM +0100, Diederik de Haas wrote:
> On Saturday, 4 February 2023 22:12:24 CET Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
> > > Right, I agree this should be a package of its own. I didn't know
> > > raspi-nonfree came from a "coherent" set of firmware sources provided
> > > by a single upstream. It is a distorsion that peopleinterested in
> > > brcmfmac firmware have to install raspi-firmware if they have
> > > different hardware.
> > 
> > So I guess we can close this bug here, and the files can be shipped
> > with a new dedicated source package containing the firmware files,
> > since the last option of having them merged upstream in
> > linux-firmware.git seems unrealistic for now?
> 
> We could do that, but wouldn't it make more sense to reassign it to wnpp (?) 
> and turn it into a RFP type bug?
> 
> That way we would preserve the history (and thus useful info) of this issue.

Sure, we can do that as well. Drawback is that the initial mail does
not contain the details for the RFP, but it is a sensible idea.

Thank you. Regards,
Salvatore