Moving firmware packages from non-free to non-free-firmware

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 17/01/2023 21.49, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
>   - firmware-nvidia-gsp, firmware-nvidia-tesla-gsp, and
>     nvidia-tesla-470-kernel-support, from nvidia-graphics-drivers*
>     source packages; it's been a while since my X days, but I don't
>     think firmware packages would be useful on their own, one would
>     need to install/build X drivers from non-free as well?

Even with the open source nvidia kernel module 
(src:nvidia-open-gpu-kernel-modules in contrib) the gsp firmware is 
(currently) only useful with nvidia driver components from non-free, so 
there is no point in moving the firmware to non-free-firmware.
In case nouveau is going to use the gsp firmware at some point (as Luca 
mentioned), it will probably have different version constraints than the 
proprietary driver and will likely require separate packages (which 
could be in non-free-firmware).


Andreas