[Pkg-raspi-maintainers] Build RPi3 wifi driver out of tree?

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[Michael Stapelberg]
> I don’t know for sure, but given that the driver is a loadable kernel
> module, you can at least build that somewhere and then copy the
> resulting module to your Raspberry Pi.

Right.  I was hoping for something working well with dkms.

> I’m a bit surprised by the question, though, as the most convenient
> way in my opinion is to just have the Debian kernel packages include a
> working version of the driver, which https://bugs.debian.org/877911
> tracks.

Aha.  I was not up to date with how far the kernel driver was from
getting into the official Debian kernel.  Last I heard, some patches was
still not accepted into the upstream kernel.  This sound very promising
indeed. :)

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Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen