[Pkg-alsa-devel] alsa-firmware in firmware-linux-non-free package

[David Henningsson]

On 2010-10-19 12:31, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 10:10 +0100, David Henningsson wrote:
>>> However I think these firmware images should be added to the
>>> linux-firmware.git repository first, as that is the 'upstream' used as a
>>> base for most distributions that provide firmware packages.
>>
>> Definitely. And so I offer the same assistance to David Woodhouse as I
>> do to you in Debian - willingness to answer questions etc, to make this
>> happen. You are welcome to help me remind him to actually pick these
>> things up.
>
> Where do I pick them up from? The git tree referenced above seems to add
> to a 'WHENCE.ubuntu' file instead of the main WHENCE file.

Oh. The idea was to keep the firmwares you haven't picked up in 
WHENCE.ubuntu, in order to make merging easier for us during that 
transition period. Just making a commit that puts all information that 
is now in WHENCE.ubuntu into WHENCE is not hard, so let me know if you 
need help with that.

> I'm also thinking of moving to something based on
> http://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/CopyrightFormat and adding extra
> metadata about the earliest/latest kernels for which any given firmware
> file is relevant, as well as a simple 'build' system.

Okay. I don't have much opinion on that matter, but if you decide to do 
so, I'm certain that we will follow your conventions for future 
additions and contributions to linux-firmware.

-- 
David Henningsson, Canonical Ltd.
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